Johannes Kepler Working Group
Johannes Kepler Working Group: Further Announcement December 2011
The formation of this Working Group (JKWG) in 2009 under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union Commission 41 (History of Astronomy) has already been announced. Its membership includes a wide range of Keplerian scholars. They are listed, and the aims of the Group are set out, on its website whose address is:
International cooperation has been instigated with the result that a digitization programme for Johannes Kepler: Gesammelte Werke, (Munich, 1937-) is under way, and five volumes have already been completed (they happen to be KGW I, KGW II, KGW III, KGW IV, KGW XIX). As further volumes are prepared, they will be uploaded to the website:
Hence, this excellent modern edition of Kepler's Collected Works, published under the editorship of the Kepler Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW), will become available to scholars worldwide over the next year or so: it will provide, at the least, a standard base for citations, but potentially much more.
We hope that the JKWG website will eventually supply a source of reliable and up-to-date information about Kepler and his work for students at all levels.