De nova stella ami 1572 (ed. Frankfurt, 1610), 479: “…Copernicus in tractaculo quodam de hypothesibus a se constitutis, quem mihi Ratisbonae aliquando [1575] manuscriptum impertijt clarissimus vir HagaeciusThaddaeus D. [Hájek]… ego vero eundem postea alijs quibusdam in Germania mathematicis communicavi…”. Tycho goes on to quote several numerical values from the Commentariolus.
2.
Mittheilungen des Coppernicus-Vereins, i (1878), 1–17.
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Bihang till K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handlingar, vi (1880–1882), no. 12 (1881), 1–15.
4.
GermanInto, by MüllerP., 1899 and RossmanF., 1948; Polish by BirkenmajerL. A., 1920; English by RosenE., 1937 and Russian by VeselovskijN. I., 1964. For a full bibliography of these translations and of recent writings on Copernicus, see RosenE., Three Copernican treatises (3rd edn, New York, 1971).
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WightmanW. P. D., Science and the Renaissance (Edinburgh, 1962), ii, 67.
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DobrzyckiJ. and WightmanW. P. D., “The Commentariolus of Copernicus”, Nature, ccviii (1965), 1263.
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Cf.StuartJ., A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, 1790); vol. xxxiii of Dictionary of national biography; and WightmanW. P. D., op. cit., ii, pp. xii–xvii.
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Briquet No. 2034; Les filigranes, i (Geneva, 1907), 149.
