Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition

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Band overview
tape year title
I. 1974 De revolutionibus.
Facsimile of the manuscript.
II. 1984 De revolutionibus libri sex.
Critical edition.
III / 1. 1998 Commentary on “De revolutionibus”.
III / 2. - not applicable
III / 3. 2007 De Revolutionibus.
The first German translation
in the Graz handwriting .
Critical Edition.
IV. 2019 Opera Minora.
The small mathematical and
scientific writings.
Editions, commentaries and
German translations.
V. 1999 Opera Minora.
The humanistic, economic
and medical writings.
Texts and [German] translations.
VI / 1. 1994 Documenta Copernicana.
Letters, texts and [German] translations.
VI / 2. 1996 Documenta Copernicana.
Documents, files and messages.
Texts and [German] translations.
VII. - not applicable
VIII / 1. 2002 Receptio Copernicana.
Texts to take up the
Copernican theory.
VIII / 2. 2015 Receptio Copernicana.
Texts to take up the
Copernican theory.
Commentaries and German translations.
IX. 2004 Biographia Copernicana.
The Copernicus Biographies from
the 16th to 18th Centuries.
Texts and [German] translations.
Catalog of the early Copernicus portraits.

In the Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition , the main work and the posthumous writings of Nikolaus Copernicus (of which there are Latin and German) have been published with textual criticism and commentary since 1974 . German translations are included with all Latin texts. The Copernican writings are supplemented by the edition of the texts to take up the Copernican theory in the 16th and early 17th centuries as well as the edition of all early Copernicus biographies from the 16th to the 18th century and a catalog of the early Copernicus portraits.

The first two volumes of the complete edition were published by Gerstenberg Verlag . The volumes from 1994 to 2007 were published by Akademie Verlag in Berlin . The last two volumes were published by de Gruyter Oldenbourg in 2015 and 2019 . With the publication of Volume IV in 2019, the Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition will be completed.

Edition history

→ For the edition history of the main work, see De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Previous editions in the 19th century

The main work by Nicolaus Copernicus was deleted from the Index librorum prohibitorum of the Catholic Church in 1822 (see section Reception on the main work ). During this time, national thinking in Europe became more and more important. This led u. a. to an increased interest in the entire work and biography of the astronomer. The first critical edition of his (then known) complete works with Polish translations was obtained by Jan Baranowski in Warsaw in 1854 . On the occasion of the 400th birthday of Copernicus in 1873, u. a. Franz Hipler ( Spicilegium Copernicanum ), Maximilian Curtze as well as Leopold Friedrich Prowe, who was born in Thorn just like Copernicus , elaborated and published extensive documentation, text and document editions as well as a biography.

The Munich "Nikolaus Copernicus Complete Edition"

In preparation for the 400th anniversary of the death of Copernicus in 1943, German Copernicus researchers, who formed the “Copernicus Commission” in 1941, put together the plan for a critical complete edition. Only two volumes of her were published in 1944 and 1949, under the title Nikolaus Kopernikus Gesamtausgabe. Fritz Kubach as editor, Max Caspar as chairman of the Copernicus Commission and Franz Zeller and Karl Zeller as editors were involved in this edition . After this so-called Munich edition was discontinued, the Polish Copernicus researcher Aleksander Birkenmajer developed the plan for a comprehensive Polish edition in the mid-1950s, the first volume of which appeared in 1973.

New German complete edition

The 500th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus on February 19, 1973, which was honored worldwide through scientific conferences and many publications, became the occasion for a new German Copernicus Complete Edition (for which the name was spelled Nicolaus Copernicus ). At the instigation of Bernhard Sticker and other German science historians, Heribert Maria Nobis was commissioned by Walther Gerlach to plan and publish this edition with the support of the German Research Foundation . In 1971 a Copernicus Commission was founded under the chairmanship of Matthias Schramm to oversee the new complete edition, which Heribert Maria Nobis appointed as permanent secretary. In addition to new material collections, the preliminary studies and bequests of the employees involved in the Munich edition served as the basis for the work. As a result of the Copernicus texts and comments published by Ryszard Gansiniec in Poland in the meantime , a collaboration developed that led to a written agreement with the head of the Polish Copernicus research center, Paweł Czartoryski , that same year . When planning the new German complete edition, it was assumed that the critical text of the main work, which had been worked out in Poland by Juliusz Domański and Jerzy Dobrzycki , could be adopted for the second volume . However, this did not materialize. First, the exchange of all relevant scientific information was agreed. With the approval of the Polish editors, the text-critical edition of the main work was finally revised for the German edition, taking into account the text of the Polish edition.

The German edition differs from the four-volume edition published by the Polish Academy of Sciences mainly in its completeness. The Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition contains all the works, letters and records of Copernicus that have survived, even if his authorship - particularly with regard to some book entries - is controversial.

The Copernicus Research Center responsible for this second Munich Complete Edition, headed by Heribert M. Nobis, had been at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at the University of Munich since 1989 .

Employees

Employees as the editor of the band as an editor of the band as an employee etc. on the assembly line
Friederike Boockmann VI / 1
Jan Dorociński I.
Menso Folkerts III / 1, III / 3, IV, V, VI / 1, VI / 2, VIII / 1, VIII / 2, IX IV VIII / 1
Jürgen Hamel III / 3
Stefan Kirschner III / 3, IV, VIII / 1, VIII / 2, IX IV, V, VI / 2, VIII / 2, IX VI / 1
Fritz Krafft II, IV, VIII / 1
Andreas Kuehne III / 3, IV, VIII / 1, VIII / 2, IX III / 3, IV, V, VI / 1, VI / 2, VIII / 2, IX
Uwe Lück III / 3, IV
Gudula Metze IX
Heribert Maria Nobis I, II, III / 1, III / 3, V, VI / 1, VI / 2, VIII / 1, IX I, II, VIII / 1 VI / 1
Anna Maria Pastori-Nobis VIII / 1
Felix Schmeidler III / 1, VIII / 2 VIII / 1
Bernhard sticker II
Jerzy Zathey I.

Bibliographical information on the individual volumes

  • Volume I: Heribert M. Nobis (Ed.): De revolutionibus. Facsimile of the manuscript. Publishing house Dr. HA Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1974, ISBN 3-8067-0331-0 .
  • Volume II: De revolutionibus libri sex. [Critical Edition] provided by Heribert Maria Nobis and Bernhard Sticker. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 1984, ISBN 3-8067-0332-9 .
  • Volume III:
  • Volume IV: Opera Minora. The small mathematical and scientific writings. Editions, commentaries and German translations. Edited by Menso Folkerts, Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kühne with the assistance of Uwe Lück. Translation of the Commentariolus and the Wapowski letter by Fritz Krafft. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-065432-5 .
  • Volume V: Opera Minora. The humanistic, economic and medical writings. Texts and translations. Edited by Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kühne. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-05-003498-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Volume VI:
    • Volume VI / 1: Documenta Copernicana. Letters, texts and translations. Edited by Andreas Kühne with the assistance of Friederike Boockmann and Stefan Kirschner and using the preparatory work by Heribert Maria Nobis. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-05-002594-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
    • Volume VI / 2: Documenta Copernicana. Documents, files and messages. Texts and translations. Edited by Andreas Kühne with the assistance of Stefan Kirschner. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-05-003009-8 .
  • Volume VIII:
    • Volume VIII / 1: Receptio Copernicana. Texts to take up the Copernican theory [u. a. the Narratio prima by Georg Joachim Rheticus ]. Provided by Heribert Maria Nobis and Anna Maria Pastori with the assistance of Menso Folkerts and Felix Schmeidler. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003433-5 ( table of contents at GBV, limited preview in Google book search).
    • Volume VIII / 2: Receptio Copernicana. Texts to incorporate the Copernican theory. Commentaries and German translations. Edited by Stefan Kirschner, Andreas Kühne and Felix Schmeidler (†). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-05-004659-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Volume IX: Biographia Copernicana. The Copernicus Biographies from the 16th to 18th Centuries. Texts and translations. Edited by Andreas Kühne and Stefan Kirschner. With a catalog of Gudula Metze's early Copernicus portraits. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-05-003848-9 ( table of contents at GBV).

Further editions of the works of Nicolaus Copernicus

Title page of the Warsaw edition of 1854

Jan Baranowski (Ed.), Warsaw 1854.

  • Nicolai Copernici Torunensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri sex . Accedit G. Joachimi Rhetici Narratio prima, cum Copernici nonnullis scriptis minoribus nunc primum collectis, ejusque vita. Typis Stanislai Strabski, Varsaviae 1854. (Polish parallel title: Mikołaja Kopernika Toruńczyka O obrotach ciał niebieskich ksiąg sześć ).

Fritz Kubach (Ed.): Nikolaus Kopernikus Complete Edition . Oldenbourg, Munich [u. a.]

  • Volume I. 1944: Opus de revolutionibus caelestibus, manu propria. Facsimile reproduction
  • Volume II. 1949: De revolutionibus orbium caelestium libri 6th text-critical edition. Eds. Franciscus Zeller, Carolus Zeller
  • thus canceled

Nicolai Copernici Opera Omnia . Officina Publica Libris Scientificias Edendis, Varsaviae

  • Volume I. 1973: De revolutionibus, codicis propria auctoris manu scripti imago phototypa.
  • Volume II. 1975: Nicolai Copernici De revolutionibus libri sex. Ed. Ryszard Gansiniec
  • Volume III. 2007: Pisma pomniejsze . [Smaller writings] Ed. Andrzej Wyczański
  • Volume IV. 1992: The manuscripts of Nicolas Copernicus' minor works. Ed. Pawel Czartoryski

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition. De Gruyter, accessed February 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b A list of all texts contained in Volume VI can be found in: Marian Biskup : Regesta Copernicana. (Calendar of Copernicus' Papers). (=  Studia Copernicana. Volume VIII.) Ossolineum, Wrocław u. a. 1973 (Foreword and description of the documents and files in English. Bibliography pp. 16–22. Polish edition as Volume VII of the Studia Copernicana .)
  3. ^ A b Andreas Kühne : The edition of letters, documents and files in the Munich Nicolaus Copernicus complete edition . In: Hans-Gert Roloff (Hrsg.): Editionsdesiderate der early modern times. First part (=  Chloe. Supplements to Daphnis . Volume 24 ). Rodopi , Amsterdam / Atlanta 1997, ISBN 90-420-0332-4 , pp. 141 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Heribert M. Nobis: Foreword to the Complete Edition. In: NCG Volume I, section Die Münchner Ausgabe p. VI f.
  5. ↑ Heribert M. Nobis: Foreword to the Complete Edition. In: NCG Volume I, P. VII.
  6. ↑ Heribert M. Nobis: Foreword to the Complete Edition. In: NCG Volume I, P. IX.
  7. ↑ a b Heribert M. Nobis: Foreword to the complete edition. In: NCG Volume I, p. VIII f.
  8. ↑ a b Heribert M. Nobis: Foreword to the second volume of the complete edition. In: NCG Volume II, p. XIII f.
  9. ^ Andreas Kühne: The edition of letters, documents and files in the Munich Nicolaus Copernicus complete edition . In: Hans-Gert Roloff (Hrsg.): Editionsdesiderate der early modern times. First part (=  Chloe. Supplements to Daphnis . Volume 24 ). Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1997, ISBN 90-420-0332-4 , pp. 142–144 ( p. 142 , p. 143 , p. 144 in Google Book Search).
  10. ↑ Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition. De Gruyter , archived from the original on July 1, 2018 ; accessed on February 14, 2020 .
  11. ^ NCG Volume I, pages 1 and 56.
  12. ↑ Related to this is Gudula Metze's dissertation: The Development of Copernicus Portraits from the 16th Century to the 18th Century. University of Munich, Faculty of History and Art, Munich 2004 ( full text as PDF ).
  13. ↑ NCG Volume I, pages 1, 4 and 30.

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