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Summary

Nicolaus Copernicus: English: "De revolutionibus", p. b recto.

Polski: "De revolutionibus", s. b recto.

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Artist
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 Frombork
Work location
Frombork Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q619
Title
English: "De revolutionibus", p. b recto.
Polski: "De revolutionibus", s. b recto.
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 the government of Czechoslovakia)
Notes
English: Note by Jakob Christmann in Nicolaus Copernicus' manuscript of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Latina: Venerabilis et eximii iuris utriusque doctoris, D[omi]ni Nicolai Copernick Canonici Varmiensis in Borussia Germaniae mathematici celeberimi opus de revolutionibus coelestibus propria manu exparatum et haectenus in biblioteca Georgii Ioachimii Rhetici item Valentini Othonis conservatum, ad usum studii mathematici procurauit M. Iacobus Christmannus Decanus Facultatis artium, anno 1603, die 19 Decembris
Source/Photographer www.bj.uj.edu.pl
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