This volume contains critical editions of all of Copernicus's minor mathematical and scientific works with commentaries and German translations. Taking into account the latest developments in Copernicus research it includes the "Commentariolus", the "Wapowski-letter on the movement of the eighth sphere", the "Notebook in Uppsala" with Copernicus's astronomical observations, the "Trigonometry", the "Table of sunrises and sunsets" and, for the first time, all the mathematical and scientific notes Copernicus wrote in books of his library. Furthermore Johannes Werner's "Treatise on the movement of the eighth sphere" was critically edited and translated into German for the first time since the Editio princeps in 1522.

Autorentext

Menso Folkerts, LMU München; Stefan Kirschner, Universität Hamburg; Andreas Kühne, LMU München.

Zusammenfassung

"Die Edition beeindruckt durch die große Sorgfalt, mit der die Bearbeiter die Texte ausgewählt,
kommentiert und gegebenenfalls übersetzt haben. Der Band gereicht zum Vorbild
für die Grundlagenforschung." Dieter Heckmann in: Preußenland, 2020

"This volume calls for champagne, for it completes the massive Nicolaus Copernicus-
Gesamtausgabe (NCG). Begun half a century ago, the nine-volume project has now reedited
all of Copernicus's Latin writings and published many related documents, together
with German translations and introductions. By merely scratching the surface of this
large fourth volume, this review can scarcely do justice to the whole of this impressive
undertaking." Michael H. Shank in: Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2022/2