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Summary

Nicolaus Copernicus: English: "De revolutionibus", p. 9 verso.

Polski: "De revolutionibus", s. 9 verso.

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Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Niklas Koppernigk; Mikołaj Kopernik; Nikolaus Kopernikus; Copernicus; Niclas Koppernigk
Description	Polish astronomer, jurist, economist, mathematician, legal scholar and physicist
Date of birth/death	19 February 1473	24 May 1543
Location of birth/death	Toruń	Frombork
Work location	Frombork
Authority file	: Q619 VIAF: 71389288 ISNI: 0000000110290900 LCCN: n79039943 NLA: 35031073 MGP: 126177 WorldCat

Title

English: "De revolutionibus", p. 9 verso.

Polski: "De revolutionibus", s. 9 verso.

Description

Latina:

ratione salua manente nemo eni[m] conuenientiorem allegabit
q[am] ut magnitudine[m] orbium multitudo t[em]p[or]is metiatur, ordo sphae-
rarum seq[ui]tur in hunc modu[m]: a summo capientes initium.
Prima et                    sup[re]ma omnium est stellarum 
fi                                xarum sphaera, seip[s]am
                                        et omnia continens 
                                         ideoque immobilis
                                                 Nempe uni-
                                                  rsi locus
                                                    ad quem
                                                         mo
                                                        tus
                                                         et
                                                            
(Concentric diagram of the heliocentric solar system with Sun and planets, captions:)

I. Stellarum fixarum sphaera immobilis Sphere of the fixed immovable stars
II. Saturnus anno .XXX. reuoluitur
III. Iouis .XII. annorum reuolutio
IIII. Martis bima reuolutio 2 years
V. Telluris cum Luna an. re[volutio]. Earth and Moon a year
VI. Veneris nonimestris 9 months
VII. Merc[urii] LXXX?. Dieru[m] 80 days
Sol.
                                                            et
                                                            po
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            s
                                                            i
                                                          tio
                                                          cae
                                                      terorum
                                                       omnium 
                                                     syderium
                                                   conferatur
                                                     Nam quod
                                            aliquo modo illam
                                      etiam mutari existimant
aliqui:                            nos aliam cur ita appareat
in deductione motus terrestris assignabimus causam. Sequnt[ur]
errantium primus Saturnus: qui xxx anno suum complet circu
itu[m] post hunc Iupiter duodecinali revolutione mobilis. Deind[e]
Mars qui biennio circuit. Quartum in ordine a[n]nua revolutio
locum obtinet, in quo terram cum orbe lunari tanquam epicyclo 
conteneri diximus. Quinto loco Venus nono mense reducitur

Compare Latin text at rharriso.sites.truman.edu Copernicus De revolutionibus.

Date

1520-1541

Medium

ink on paper

Dimensions

height: 28 cm (11 in); width: 19 cm (7.4 in) 213 leaves

Collection

Jagiellonian Library

	Native name	Biblioteka Jagiellońska
	Parent institution	Jagiellonian University
	Location	Kraków
	Coordinates	50° 03′ 41.4″ N, 19° 55′ 24.96″ E
	Established	1364
	Website	www.bj.uj.edu.pl
	Authority file	: Q24101 VIAF: 148485690 ISNI: 000000012375281X LCCN: n82138171 NLA: 36493632 GND: 4073761-5 WorldCat

Current location

Kraków

Accession number

10 000

Object history

1543: transferred to Tiedemann Giese, bishop of Chełmno
1554: transferred to Georg Joachim Rheticus in Košice
1574: transferred to Valentinus Otho in Heidelberg
1603: transferred to Jakob Christmann in Heidelberg
1614: transferred to Jan Amos Komenský
1667: transferred to Otto von Nostitz in Jawor Śląski
1675: transferred to Nostitz family in Prague
1945: transferred to National Museum Library in Prague

1956: transferred to Jagiellonian University in Cracow (gift of the government of Czechoslovakia)

Source/Photographer

www.bj.uj.edu.pl

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:50, 2 May 2009	870 × 1,270 (181 KB)	Matthead	Reverted to version as of 10:55, 20 February 2006. Better than the dark grey scan
	19:09, 1 May 2009	870 × 1,270 (192 KB)	Grzegorz Petka	podmiana
	10:55, 20 February 2006	870 × 1,270 (181 KB)	DerBart~commonswiki	From Copernicus' manuscript: "De revolutionibus", Book One, Chapter 10: The Order of the Heavenly Spheres.