Texts & cultural history
Johannes Petreius
Nuremberg scientific printer
Also known as Johann Petreius
Historical portrait · Image credit
Who they are
Johannes Petreius printed the first edition of Copernicus’s De revolutionibus in Nuremberg in 1543. His role belongs to the production and circulation of the book, alongside its author and the people involved in preparing it for publication. The edition’s history shows how scientific ideas reached readers through a network of intermediaries.
He connects the heliocentric argument to the practical and editorial history of its publication.
Selected contributions
- Printed the 1543 Nuremberg edition of Copernicus’s De revolutionibus.Source ↗
Primary records
Book · 1543
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions)
Copernicus places Earth among the moving planets and organizes planetary motions around the Sun. The linked selections include prefatory material and parts of the astronomical argument, allowing readers to distinguish the author’s text from Osiander’s added foreword.
Original work published in 1543; the linked Edward Rosen translation contains prefatory material, Book I selections and later passages. It is not a complete book or six-book edition.
Reading scope & citation
Fresh Osiander foreword read; previously inspected Book I passages reused. Reuses documented prior inspection: HTML downloaded and relevant translated primary sections inspected. This was not a review of all six books or numerical tables. Reuses the input’s documented prior inspection: HTML downloaded and relevant translated primary sections inspected. This was not a review of all six books or numerical tables. No fresh full-work reread in this directory pass. Reused prior inspected evidence: HTML downloaded and relevant translated primary sections inspected. This was not a review of all six books or numerical tables. Final access audit inspected the selection’s headings and discontinuous chapter sequence.
In the timeline
Biography sources & portrait credit
- Collection Highlight: Copernicus's De revolutionibus ↗University of Rochester Libraries
Portrait credit
unknown. Original uploader was DALIBRI at de.wikipedia. Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Historical portrait. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration) ↗
