Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe
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The Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe (Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition) is a comprehensive, commented collection of works by, about, and related to Nicolaus Copernicus
. The Gesamtausgabe includes Copernicus's surviving manuscripts and notes, his published writings, other authors' commentary about Copernicus and his works, a bibliography, and a biography.
Compilation of the series began in 1973 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Copernicus's birth. The first volume is the astronomer
's landmark work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
(On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), which expounded Copernicus's heliocentric theory
of the universe. The set is published by Akademie Verlag
in Berlin
, Germany
.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
. The Gesamtausgabe includes Copernicus's surviving manuscripts and notes, his published writings, other authors' commentary about Copernicus and his works, a bibliography, and a biography.
Compilation of the series began in 1973 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Copernicus's birth. The first volume is the astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
's landmark work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus...
(On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), which expounded Copernicus's heliocentric theory
Copernican heliocentrism
Copernican heliocentrism is the name given to the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. It positioned the Sun near the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets rotating around it in circular paths modified by epicycles and at uniform...
of the universe. The set is published by Akademie Verlag
Akademie Verlag
Akademie Verlag is a German scientific and academic publishing company, originally founded in 1946 in the Soviet-occupied Eastern part of divided Berlin to facilitate the publication of works by and for the German Academy of Sciences Berlin....
in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Volumes
- I: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, 1974, ISBN 978-3-05-003897-1
- II:
- III/1: Kommentar zu "De revolutionibus", 1998, ISBN 978-3-05-003123-1
- III/3: De Revolutionibus. Die erste deutsche Übersetzung in der GrazGrazThe more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...
er Handschrift, 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004355-5 - IV:
- V: Opera Minora 1999, ISBN 978-3-05-003498-0
- VI/1: Documenta Copernicana, 1994, ISBN 978-3-05-002594-0
- VI/2: Documenta Copernicana, 1996, ISBN 978-3-05-003009-8
- VII:
- VIII/1: Receptio Copernicana, ISBN 978-3-05-003433-1
- IX: Biographia Copernicana