Home > American Philosophical Society >   Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology
	Our Price: $20.00 Year: 1988 Pages: 148 Binding Hardcover Product Code: 0871697874

Description   Owen Gingerich; Robert S. Westman. Contents: Introduction; (I) The Libraries of Tycho Brahe & of Paul Wittich: The Misleading Attribution of the Copernican Annotations; Master Paul Wittich; Tycho’s Attempts to Acquire Wittich’s Library; & The Prague Tychoniana; (II) Wittich’s Copernican Annotations: Reinhold’s Annotations & the Liege “De revolutionibus”; The Vatican Wittich Copy; The Prague & Wroclaw Wittich Copies; & Why Annotate Four Copes of “De revolutionibus”?; (III) Reconstructing the Universe: Tycho’s Early Transformations & Wittich’s Visit; A Theft in the Castle?: Thycho’s “Legal Brief” on the Ursus Affair, & Ursus’ Account & Kepler’s Interpretation; & Constructing Tycho’s Cosmology. Appendix: The Vatican Annotations; & Wittich’s Obituary in ”Silesia Togata.” Illus.

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