The title of this work is: The letters of Baron Francis X. Zach, Director of the Observatory of Gotha-Seeberg, and his successors Bernard von Lindenau to Father Martin Alois David, Assistant Astronomer and Director of the Royal Observatory of Prague from 1791 till 1816. The study contains a) 62 letters of Zach, b) 9 letters of Lindenau, all of them being of astronomical interest and kept in the records of the Observatory of Prague (IV.), and c) notes of David (III.) as they were written during his visit at Zach 1789 and 1801. - In his introduction, the editor follows the personal and literary contacts of David with Zach (I.). The statistics of the correspondence (II.) reports on a) the letters published in the work, b) on the letters of Zach and Lindenau mentioned only in David´s diaries or partly published in the reviews on account of their scientific value, an c) on a list of letters of David sent to Zach and Lindenau that have nor been found till today, being known from David´s diaries only. In the V. part there is a list of essays written by David and Adam Bittner. Assistant Astronomer of Prague Observatory, which were published in reviews edited by Zach and Lindenau, and a list of Zach´s reports on David´s essays.
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) celebrates not only Galileo Galilei’s innovative work in telescopic observational astronomy, but also the year that Johannes Kepler’s paradigm-setting work Astronomia Nova - which he wrote in Prague - was published. This, Kepler’s magnum opus contains the results of the astronomer’s ten year investigation of the motion of Mars and records the discovery of the first two of the three principles known as Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion. and Luděk Svoboda.
(Conclusions) Importance of the social behaviour of astronomers for the astronomical research has been pointed out. Several distinct types of stellar astronomers have been described and classified. However, more observational data are urgently needed before a physically justified classification will be possible.