Talk:Commentariolus

message: If you click on "Narratio Prima", you get another article. The grammar in the same sentence is bad.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.51.240 (talk) 12:58, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odd 

message: Information in this article differs from information in Nicolaus Copernicus. Most strikingly, Nicolaus Copernicus says that "Commentariolus" was distributed in 1514. This article says the date of publication is unknown. I do not have the sources. Could someone please check the sources, find the correct facts, and harmonize these two articles and others that discuss "Commentariolus", including Copernican heliocentrism. Also, it should be possible to find out (from Rosen or Gingerich) and state definitively when surviving manuscripts were discovered and published. I believe the answer is two copies were discovered, both of the ones referred to in the footnote in this article. Finally, there is some information about "Commentariolus" in Nicolaus Copernicus that is not in this article, including a listing of the 7 points. This article should contain everything that Wikipedia has to say about "Commentariolus". I'm posting the same message on Talk: Nicolaus Copernicus. Thanks. Finell (Talk) 11:10, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual inconsistencies between articles 

message: The article on De revolutionibus orbium coelestium mentions that the Commentariolus was anonymous, but the article on Nicolaus Copernicus seems to imply that the booklet mentioned its author's name. Which is true? Also, if the Commentariolus was anonymous, how was it deduced that Copernicus wrote it? CielProfond (talk) 01:33, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: User:CielProfond has just volunteered to do the research he calls for. There are only about three copies to read. They are in Copernicus's style. The text is very short.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.54.202.247 (talk) 09:45, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The title of the Commentariolus might have  been added by a scribe.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C0:FCF6:4801:C6F:139D:918C:BEF2 (talk) 07:13, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anonymous? 

message: When  a characterisation of the Commentariolus from "six-page" to "forty-page" back in 2009, I was relying on a statement by Victor Thoren on
p.99 of his biography of Tycho Brahe, The Lord of Uraniborg.  However, this is almost certainly an error on Thoren's part. In the introduction to his 1973 translation of the Commentariolus, cited in the article, Noel Swerdlow says that it is "scarcely eight folios in length".  Even if all of them were written on both sides, they would have to be rather large folios for just eight of them to accomodate a 40-page treatise.
More decisively, the Polish Academy of Sciences has published facsimiles of all three surviving 16th-century manuscripts on pp.208–52 of volume IV of its edition of Copernicus's collected works.  The Vienna manuscript (admittedly incomplete) comprises 19 pages on 10 folios, the Stockholm manuscript, which had been bound into Johannes Hevelius's copy of De revolutionibus, comprises 16 pages, and the Aberdeen manuscript, which had similarly been bound into Duncan Liddel's copy of the same work, comprises 10 pages on 6 folios.
David Wilson (talk · cont) 13:56, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  40-page outline?