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

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

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Nicolaus Copernicus  (1473–1543)  wikidata:Q619 s:en:Author:Nicolaus Copernicus q:en:Nicolaus Copernicus
 
Nicolaus Copernicus
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 Edit this at Wikidata 24 May 1543 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Toruń Edit this at Wikidata Frombork Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q619
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
medium QS:P186,Q127418;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 28 cm (11 in); width: 19 cm (7.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,28U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,19U174728
213 leaves
institution QS:P195,Q24101
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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