Three Copernican Treatises
By: Translated with introduction and notes by Edward Rosen
Contributors: Nicolaus Copernicus; George Joachim Rheticus; Edward Rosen
Edition: 2 Revised edition
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: March 19, 2004
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780486436050
Subjects: PHYSICS; Science; Astronomy - General; Science/Mathematics; Science / Astronomy; Astronomy; 1468-1528; 1468-1528.; De motu octavae sphaerae; Early works to 1800; Werner, Johannes,
Description: The writings of Copernicus were unavailable in English until the publication of this 1939 translation from the original Latin. A three-part collection, it consists of the Commentariolus, Copernicus' sketch of his hypotheses for the heavenly motions; the Narratio prima, a popular introduction to Copernican theory; and the Letter against Werner, Copernicus' refutation of the views of a contemporary. This revised edition of the original English translation features extensive editorial apparatus, including an introduction with biographies of Copernicus and his disciple, George Joachim Rheticus, as well as background information on each of the treatises, an annotated bibliography, and an index. Unabridged republication of the second, revised 1959 edition.
Table of contents: label: PREFACE; label: CONTENTS; label: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: 1; title: Nicolas Copernicus
pagenum: 3; title: George Joachim Rheticus
pagenum: 4; title: The Commentariolus
pagenum: 6; title: The Letter against Werner
pagenum: 7; title: The Narratio prima
pagenum: 9; title: The Doctrine of the Spheres
pagenum: 11; title: The Title of the Commentariolus and the Views of Copernicus concerning the Nature of Astronomical Hypotheses
pagenum: 22; title: Deferent and Epicycle, Eccentric and Equant
pagenum: 34; label: COMMENTARIOLUS
pagenum: 55; title: Assumptions
pagenum: 58; title: The Order of the Spheres
pagenum: 59; title: The Apparent Motions of the Sun
pagenum: 61; title: Equal Motion Should Be Measured Not by the Equinoxes But by the Fixed Stars
pagenum: 65; title: The Moon
pagenum: 68; title: The Three Superior Planets
pagenum: 74; title: Venus
pagenum: 81; title: Mercury
pagenum: 85; label: LETTER AGAINST WERNER
pagenum: 91; label: NARRATIO PRIMA
pagenum: 107; title: The Motions of the Fixed Stars
pagenum: 111; title: General Considerations of the Tropical Year
pagenum: 114; title: The Change in the Obliquity of the Ecliptic
pagenum: 117; title: The Eccentricity of the Sun and the Motion of the Solar Apogee
pagenum: 119; title: The Kingdoms of the World Change with the Motion of the Eccentric
pagenum: 121; title: Special Considerations of the Length of the Tropical Year
pagenum: 127; title: General Considerations regarding the Motions of the Moon
pagenum: 133; title: The Principal Reasons Why We Must Abandon the Hypotheses of the Ancient Astronomers
pagenum: 136; title: Transition to the Explanation of the New Hypotheses
pagenum: 140; title: The Arrangement of the Universe
pagenum: 142; title: The Motions Appropriate to the Great Circle and Its Related Bodies
pagenum: 147; title: Librations
pagenum: 153; title: The Second Part of the Hypotheses
pagenum: 162; title: The Motions of the Five Planets
pagenum: 162; title: The Hypotheses for the Motions in Longitude of the Five Planets
pagenum: 168; title: The Apparent Deviation of the Planets from the Ecliptic
pagenum: 178; title: In Praise of Prussia
pagenum: 188; label: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
pagenum: 197; label: ANNOTATED COPERNICUS BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1939-1958
pagenum: 199; label: INDEX
pagenum: 271