Bøger af Stefan Kirschner

This volume contains commentaries, extensive annotations, and complete translations into German of the edited texts in volume VIII/1 on the reception and spread of Copernican theory in the sixteenth century. Above all the writings on heliocentric cosmology by Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574), the De revolutionibus commentaries of Erasmus Reinhold (1511-1553) and of Nicolaus Mulerius (1564-1630) are translated and commented.

The second volume of Copernicus's minor works contains critical editions and German translations of his economic, humanistic, and medical works. It includes his Latin translation of the Greek "Letters" of the seventh-century Byzantine scholar Theophylaktos Simokattes, which was printed in Krakow in 1509, as well as Copernicus's memoranda on coinage and a complete edition of his surviving medical and pharmaceutical texts and notes.