Narratio prima or First Account of the Books On the Revolutions by Nicolaus Copernicus
By: Georg Joachim Rheticus ; with an introduction by Jarosław Włodarczyk
Publisher: WUW, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Warsaw, Poland
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9788394172817; 9788323519713
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800; De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Copernicus, Nicolaus)
Other titles: Narratio prima; First Account of the Books On the Revolutions by Nicolaus Copernicus; Ad Clarissimum Virum D. Ioannem Schonerum, De Libris Revolutionu[m] eruditissimi viri, & Mathematici excellentissimi, Reverendi D. Doctoris Nicolai Copernici Torunnaei, Canonici Varmiensis, per quendam Iuvenem, Mathematicae studiosum Narratio Prima.
Work titles: De libris revolutionum Nicolai Copernici narratio prima
Notes: "The facsimile edition based on the copy of the first edition of the Narratio prima (Gdansk, 1540) held by the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Gdansk Library, shelf mark Sa 14 8⁰."--Title page verso.

"[W]e can present a facsimile edition of the Narratio Prima [Ad Clarissimum Virum D. Ioannem Schonerum, De Libris Revolutionu[m] eruditissimi viri, & Mathematici excellentissimi, Reverendi D. Doctoris Nicolai Copernici Torunnaei, Canonici Varmiensis, per quendam Iuvenem, Mathematicae studiosum Narratio Prima] by Georg Joachim Rheticus. This book, an abstract and resumé of Nicolaus Copernicus' De Revolutionibus, was written when both these scholars were staying at Lubawa Castle in the summer of 1539. Their host was a friend of Copernicus, Tiedemann Giese, the Bishop of Culm. Published three years before the work of Copernicus, the Narratio Prima recounts ... the heliocentric theory of the great Polish scholar."--Foreword, page 5.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gift; Robert Szaj; 20190226.

Introductory matter in English; Ad Clarissimum Virum D. Ioannem Schonerum, De Libris Revolutionu[m] eruditissimi viri, & Mathematici excellentissimi, Reverendi D. Doctoris Nicolai Copernici Torunnaei, Canonici Varmiensis, per quendam Iuvenem, Mathematicae studiosum Narratio Prima facsimile in Latin.