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Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, [10] [11] to German-speaking parents. [12] His father was a merchant from Kraków and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy Toruń merchant. [13] Nicolaus was the youngest of four children.
The Commentariolus (Little Commentary) is Nicolaus Copernicus's brief outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe. [1] After further long development of his theory, Copernicus published the mature version in 1543 in his landmark work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).
The Nicolaus-Copernicus-Gesamtausgabe (Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition) is a comprehensive, commented collection of works by, about, and related to Nicolaus Copernicus. The Gesamtausgabe includes Copernicus's surviving manuscripts and notes, his published writings, other authors' commentary about Copernicus and his works, a bibliography ...
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1952), On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Great Books of the Western World, vol. 16, translated by Charles Glenn Wallis, Chicago: William Benton, pp. 497– 838 Gassendi, Pierre : The Life of Copernicus , biography (1654), with notes by Olivier Thill (2002), ISBN 1-59160-193-2 ( [1] )
Locationes mansorum desertorum is a manuscript of Nicolaus Copernicus, written between 1516–1521. It is from ledgers handwritten by Copernicus when he was an economic administrator in Warmia . Bibliography
Pages in category "Works by Nicolaus Copernicus" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
This Narratio Prima, published by Franz Rhode in Danzig in 1540, is still considered to be the best introduction to Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. As the full [3] title [4] states, the Narratio was published as an open letter to Johannes Schöner of Nuremberg (Nürnberg).
The autograph of Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is a manuscript of six books of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus written between 1520 and 1541. [1] Since 1956, it is kept in the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków (signature 10,000).