This is the abstract of the paper "Almost Periodic Solutions of First and Second Order Cauchy Problems" by W. Arendt and C.J.K. Batty. For the whole paper send the command get evolve-l 98-00041 to: "listserv@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de". Instead you may get the paper at "http://ma1serv.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/evolve-l/index.html" too. Abstract: Almost periodicity of solutions of first and second order Cauchy problems on the real line is proved under the assumption that the imaginary (resp. real) spectrum of the underlying operator is countable. Related results have been obtained by Ruess-V\~{u} and Basit. Our proof uses a new idea. It is based on a factorisation method which also gives a short proof (of the vector-valued version) of Loomis' classical theorem, saying that a bounded uniformly continuous function from R into a Banach space $X$ with countable spectrum is almost periodic if $c_0 \not\subset X$. Our method can also be used for solutions on the half-line. This is done in a separate paper. To appear in Taiwanese J. Math.: Discrete Spectrum and almost periodicity