Narratio Prima

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Narratio Prima ( Latin for First Report ) is the short name of a work by Georg Joachim Rheticus , first published in 1540 , in which he described the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus , the publication of which he supervised three years later in Nuremberg under Johannes Petreius as De revolutionibus orbium coelestium .

history

The positive reception of the narrative printed by Franz Rhode in Danzig , which was designed as an open letter to Johannes Schöner and represents the first printed form of the Copernican theory , persuaded the almost 70-year-old Copernicus to finally agree to the publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium .

The Encomium Borussiae , a “praise to Prussia”, was also published. In 1541 a second edition was printed in Basel by Robert Winter , and there in 1566 a third by Henricus Petrus , in connection with the second edition of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium .

Issues from the 16th and 17th centuries

  • Ad clarissimum virum D. Ioannem Schonerum, de libris revolutionum eruditissimi viri, & mathematici excellentissimi reverendi D. Doctoris Nicolai Copernici Torunnaei, Canonici Varmiensis, per quendam iuvenem, mathematicae studiosum narratio prima . [Rhode], [Danzig 1540], doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-1297 .
  • De libris Revolutionum eruditissimi viri, et mathematici excellentissimi reverendi D. Doctoris Nicolai Copernici Torunnaei Canonici Varmaciensis, Narratio Prima ad clariss. Virum D. Ioan. Schonerum, per M. Georgium Ioachimum Rheticum, una cum Encomio Borussiae scripta . [Winter], Basel [1541] ( digitized version ).
  • In: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI. [...] Item de libris revolutionum Nicolai Copernici Narratio prima, per M. Georgium Ioachimum Rheticum ad D. Ioan. Schonerum scripta . Heinrich Petri, Basel 1566, (online) .
  • In: Johannes Kepler: Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, Continens Mysterium Cosmographicum, De Admirabili Proportione Orbium Coelestium . Georg Gruppenbach , Tübingen 1596, (online) .
  • In: Johannes Kepler: Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, Continens Mysterium Cosmographicum, De Admirabili Proportione Orbium Coelestium […] Libellus primum Tübingae in lucem datus anno Christi MD XCVI. Erasmus Kempfer, Frankfurt 1621.

Modern editions and translations

  • Henri Hugonnard-Roche, Jean-Pierre Verdet (Eds.): Georgii Joachimi Rhetici Narratio prima. Maison d'Édition de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Wrocław 1982, ISBN 83-04-00764-9 (critical edition with French translation and commentary)
  • Georg Joachim Rhetikus' first report on the 6 books of Copernicus on the circular movements of the heavenly orbits . Translation by Karl Zeller , Oldenbourg 1943.

literature

  • Richard S. Westfall , Indiana University. Rheticus, George Joachim . "Catalog of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries," The Galileo Project.
  • Dennis Danielson (2006). The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution . Walker & Company, New York, ISBN 0-8027-1530-3
  • Karl Heinz Burmeister : Georg Joachim Rhetikus 1514–1574. Vol I-III. Guido Pressler Verlag , Wiesbaden 1967.
  • Stefan Deschauer: The Arithmetic Lecture of Georg Joachim Rheticus, Wittenberg 1536: an annotated edition of the manuscript X-278 (8) of the Estonian Academic Library ; Augsburg: Rauner, 2003, ISBN 3-936905-00-2
  • R. Hooykaas: GJ Rheticus' Treatise on holy scripture and the motion of the earth / with transl., Annotations, commentary and additional chapters on Ramus-Rheticus and the development of the problem before 1650 . Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1984

Web links

Wikisource: Narratio Prima  - Sources and full texts (Latin)

Individual evidence

  1. Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology 2004, archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lindahall.org