Nicolai Copernici Torinensis de reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : In quibus stellarum et fixarum et erraticarum motus, ex veteribus at[que] recentibus obseruationibus, restituit hic autor. Praetera tabulas expeditas luculentas[que] addidit, ex quibus eosdem motus ad quoduis tempus mathematum studiosus facillime calculare poterit. Item, De libris reuolutionum Nicolai Copernici narratio prima, per Georgium Ioachimum Rheticum ad D. Ioan. Schonerum scripta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.

Contributor:

Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, printer.

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642, annotator.

Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547.

Series:

Early European books.

Standardized Title:

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Solar system--Early works to 1800.

Solar system.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Switzerland -- Basel -- 16th century.

Annotations (Provenance) -- Switzerland -- Basel -- 16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( 6 unnumbered leaves, 213 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf) : illustrations

Other Title:

De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI

Nicolai Copernici Torinensis de revolvtionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI

De revolvtionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI

Place of Publication:

Basileae : Ex officina Henricpetrina, anno MDLXVI, mense Septembri [1566]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Date from colophon (leaf 213v).

"Cum Gratia & Priuilegio Caes. Maiest."

Includes tables from Reinhold's Prudenicae tabulae coelestium motuum.

"Clarissimo uiro D. Ioanni Schonero, ut parenti suo colendo, G. Ioachimus Rheticus S.D.": leaves 197r-213r.

Woodcuts: Printer's device on title page and verso of last leaf (see Bigmore & Wyman, p. 324); initials.

With annotations by Galileo Galilei. Cf. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

Text in double columns.

Signatures: pi⁶ a-z⁴ A-2F⁴ 2G⁶.

Imperfect: stained.

Reproduction of original in: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze -- Postillati.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2010 Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions. s2010 miun o

Cited in:

Adams, C2603

VD 16, K 2100

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 221

Brunet II, col. 257

Contains:

Rhäticus, Georg Joachim, 1514-1576. De libris revolutionum Nicolai Copernici narratio prima.

Reinhold, Erasmus, 1511-1553. Prutenicae tabulae coelestium motuum. Selections.

OCLC:

809799480

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Restricted for use by site license.