page_title: Henricus Petrus
hierarchical_section_title: Henricus Petrus
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Titelblatt der Erstausgabe der Cosmographia English: first page of the first edition of the Cosmographia
context_page_description: Henricus Petrus and his son Sebastian Henric Petri headed the printer shop of Basel, called Officina Henricpetrina.
  Among their best known works, both of 1566, the second edition of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus, first published in 1543 in Nuremberg by Johannes Petreius, and of Narratio Prima by Georg Joachim Rheticus, published in 1540 in Danzig by Franz Rhode.
context_section_description: Henricus Petrus (1508–1579) and his son Sebastian Henric Petri (1546, Basel – 1627, Basel) headed the printer shop of Basel (Basilea in Latin), called Officina Henricpetrina.
  Among their best known works, both of 1566, the second edition of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus, first published in 1543 in Nuremberg by Johannes Petreius, and of Narratio Prima by Georg Joachim Rheticus, published in 1540 in Danzig (Gdańsk) by Franz Rhode.
caption: Cover of Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster), 1544
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