This volume contains the significant sixteenth-century texts on the reception and spread of Copernican theory.Included are the works of Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574): Narratio prima, Chorographia tewsch, Ephemerides novae, Encomium Prussiae, Oratio de astronomia et geographia, Oratio de physica, and Dissertatio de terrae motu et scriptura sacra. In addition, the volume includes the first printed edition of the commentary on the De revolutionibus by Erasmus Reinhold (1511-1553). Furthermore, the volume includes the Notae and the Thesaurus observationum by Nicolaus Mulerius (1564-1630) from the Amsterdam edition of the De revolutionibus (1617).

Inhalt
Aus dem Inhalt:
I. Prinzipien der vorliegenden Edition

II. Textteil
Ioachimi Rhetici Narratio prima
Ioachimi Rhetici Encomium Prussiae
Ioachimi Rhetici Dissertatio de terrae motu et
Scriptura Sacra
Ioachimus Rheticus. Chorographia tewsch
Documenta carthographica
Ioachimi Rhetici Orationes duae de Astronomia et Geographia necnon de Physica
Ioachimi Rhetici Ephemerides novae
Erasmi Reinholdi Commentarius in opus
Revolutionum Copernici
Anonymi Excerpta Cracoviensia libri primi De Revolutionibus
Nicolai Mulerii Notae breves ad libros Revolutionum Copernici
Nicolai Mulerii Thesaurus Observationum Copernici

III. Appendices I-X, continentes textus alienos in opuscula Auctorum introducentes, glossarium Zeellii editioni principi Narrationis primae necnon Encomii Prussiae adiectum, etc.

IV. Anmerkungen

V. Register