OF THE WORKS OF KEPLER

ARRANGEMENT OF THE CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII, PART I.

	Folio
1. Report on the Eclipses of the Years 1620 and 1621. . . . . . .	3
2. The Dream, or On Lunar Astronomy . . . . . . . . . .	21 original: "Somnium seu De Astronomia Lunari." This is often considered one of the first works of science fiction, describing a voyage to the moon.
Kepler’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . .	40
Geographical Appendix to Guldin . . . . . . . .	67 original: "Appendix Geographica ad Guldinum." Paul Guldin was a Jesuit mathematician and contemporary of Kepler.
3. Plutarch’s little book on the face in the Moon, rendered into Latin . . . . . . .	76
Kepler’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . .	104
4. Instruction on the Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ . . . . .	124 original German: "Unterricht vom H. Sacrament des Leibs und Bluts Jesu Christi." This reflects Kepler's deep interest in theological disputes of his time.
5. Elegy on the marriage of Huldenrich . . . . . . . . . . . .	130
6. Lamentation at the funeral of Holpius . . . . . . . . . . . . .	135
7. Short dialogue on the funeral of Heiland . . . . . . . . . . .	137
8. Elegy on the death of Tycho Brahe . . . . . . . . . . .	138 Tycho Brahe was the Danish nobleman and astronomer whose precise observations provided the data for Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
9. Collections from the Pulkovo Manuscripts.
1. Mathematical Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . .	145
2. Arithmetical Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . .	161
3. Practice of Logarithms . . . . . . . . . . . . .	170
4. Geometrical Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . .	175
5. On the Origin of Magnitudes . . . . . . . . . . . .	186
6. Annotations on Tacitus . . . . . . . . . . . .	199
7. Translation of Book I of Caesar’s Gallic War . . . . . . . .	205
8. On the Origin of Roman Affairs . . . . . . . . . .	211
9. Oration on the Death of W. Joerger . . . . . . . . . . .	212
10. Chronological studies . . . . . . . . . . . . .	214
11. On Lydiat’s Treatise concerning the various forms of the Year . . . . . . .	220
12. Various astronomical studies . . . . . . . . . . .	226
13. On the Roman Year . . . . . . . . . . . . .	268
14. Notes on Scaliger’s Discourse on the Equinoxes . . . . . .	273
15. Astrological Writings
Kepler’s Birth-Chart written by H. Röslin . . . . . . .	294 original: "Nativitas." In this context, it refers to a horoscope or natal chart.
On Directions . . . . . . . . . . . .	295 A technical term in astrology referring to a method of "progressing" the birth chart to predict future events.
Judgment on the Prognostication of Sutorius . . . . . . . .	300
Fragment of a Prognostication for the Year 1604 . . . . . .	321
Horoscopes of Emperor Rudolf, Augustus, etc. . . . . . .	327
Wallenstein's Horoscope . . . . . . . . . .	343 Kepler famously cast horoscopes for General Wallenstein during the Thirty Years' War.
10. The Trial of Kepler’s Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . .	359 original: "Judicium Matris Kepleri." This refers to the lengthy and legalistic defense Kepler mounted to save his mother, Katharina Kepler, from being executed for witchcraft.