Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 78, Part

by Owen Gingerich and Robert S. Westman

Contents: Introduction; (1) 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; (2) 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"?; (3) Reconstructing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871697874
• ISBN13: 9780871697875
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 148 Pages