Writings published during Copernicus’ life

Copernicus, Nicolaus
DE LATERIBUS ET ANGULIS TRIANGULORUM [...] A [...] NICOLAO COPERNICO [...]. ADDITUS EST CANON SEMISSIUM SUBTENSARUM RECTARUM LINEARUM IN CIRCULO.
Wittenberg, 1542,
21 x 16 cm
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Signature: Cim.Qu.2847, Microfilm: Mf 3993
[Includes:] Rheticus Georgius Ioachimus, Doctrina et virtute praestanti Georgio Hartmano Noribergensi, Ioachimus Rheticus S. D.; De triangulis sphaericis.
The Silesian Library of Katowice, 223856 II
The National Library of Warsaw, Ossol. XVI.Qu. 3049 adl., Mf. 76365
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 5443
The Czartoryski Library in Cracow, II. 1784 Cimelia
The Nicolas Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/SD/318
Bound together with three other XVI c. publications

Nicolaus Copernicus
THEOPHILACTI SCOLASTICI SIMOCATI EPISTOLE MORALES, RURALES ET AMATORIE INTERPRETATIONE LATINA
Cracow 1509
Cracow, The Jagiellonian Library, Cim. 4092
20 x 14,5 cm

Editions of the „De revolutonibus” ,”Narratio prima” and „Septem sidera”

Nicolaus Copernicus
NICOLAI COPERNICI TORUNENSIS DE REVOLUTIONIBUS ORBIUM COELESTIUM, LIBRI VII [...].
Nuremberg, 1543
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Signature: Cim.F.4072 microfilm: Mf 4080
The National Library in Warsaw, BN.XVI.F.967, Mf. 88160
Proper pages of the second edition put in the place of lacking pages 81-88.
The National Museum in Poznan, Sign. III.V.f.15
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 8288 (with Brożek’s notes)
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 8436
The Nicolaus Copernicus Provincial and Municipal Library of Torun, sign. 102689 (I. 4º42)
- folded map inside: CHARTA COSMOGRAPHICA CUM VENTORUM PROPRIA NATURA ET OPERATIONE

Works of other authors related to Copernicus’ life or his theory

APOSTATA COPERNICANUS SIVE NOVUM EXAMENAD MENTEN… JOANNIS BAP. RICCIOLI… INSTITUTUM
Brunae. 1790
The National Library of Warsaw, BN. XVIII. 1.6080

ATLAS COELESTIS IN QUO MUNDUS SPECTABILIS ET IN EODEM STELLARUM OMNIUM PHOENOMENA NOTABILIA [...] SECUNDUM NIC. COPERNICI ET EX PARTE TYCHONIS DE BRAHE HIPOTHESIN [...] EXHIBENTUR A JOH[ANNE] GABRIELE DOPPELMAIERO [...].
Nuremberg, 1742. –
29 sheet. map; 35,5 x 54 cm
Including illustrations: The sun, the moon and its allegories, the constellations, the signs of zodiac, astronomical instruments, the Ptolemaic system, the Copernican system, and the system of Tycho de Brahe, the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and its allegories; and observatories in: London, Copenhagen, Berlin and Cassell, copper, colour.
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Signature: A IV 3 inv. no. 3
Note: lack of sheet 18, which should include the map:: „Hemisphaerim coeli boreale, secundum Eclipticae ductum”. – the atlas in the leather cover
The Pomeranian Library of Szczecin
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork, MF/SD/1

Blaeu Guiliemus
INSTITUTIO ASTRONOMICA DE USU GLOBORUM ET SPHAERARUM CAELESTIUM AC TERRESTIUM
P.1….secundum hyphothesim Ptolemaei per terram quiescentem.
P.2… iuxta mentem N. Copernici per terram mobilem
Amsterdam 1634
The Jagiellonian Library, 585722 I

Blaeu Guillaume
INSTITUTION ASTRONOMIQUE DE L’USAGE DES GLOBES ET SPHERES ET TERRESTRES, COMPRISE EN DEUX PARTRIE: L’UNE… HYPOTHES DE PTOLEMÉE… L’ANTRE DE N. COPERNICUS
Amsterdam 1669
The Regional Museum of Torun, inv. no. MT/H/S/15

Blaeu G. :
INSTITUTIO ASTRONOMICA DE USU GLOBORUM & SPHAERARUM.. DUABUS PARTIBUS ADORNATA, UNA SECUNDUM HYPOTHESIN PTOLEMAEI… SECUNDA JUXTA MENTEM N. COPERNICI…
Amsterdam 1690
The Silesian Library of Katowice, Sign. 229467

Blaev Willem Jansz,
TWEEVOVDIGH ONDERVISS VAN DE HEMELSCHE EN AERDSCZE GLOBEN; HET EEN NA DE MEYNING VAN PTOLEMAEUS MET VASTEN AERDKLOOT; HET ANDER NA DE NATUERLIJCKE STELLING VAN N. COPERNICVS MET EEN LOOPENDEN AERDKLOOT…
Amsterdam, 1638
The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow,
11849 old prints. ( ………………………………………………..)

Brache Tycho

ASTRONOMIAE INSTAURATAE MECHANICA
Nuremberg, 1602
The Public Library of Warsaw, XVII.3.2055
The National Library of Warsaw, BN. XVII. 4.9575 adl.

Brache Tycho
ASTRONOMIAE INSTAURATAE MECHANICA
Nuremberg1611
The Nicolas Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/SD/398

Brahe Tycho
EPISTOLARUM ASTRONOMICARUM LIBRI
Nuremberg 1601
On pages 235-236 a poem by T. Brahe „In summi mathematici Nicolai Copernici instrumentum Paralacticum…” dated 23 January 1584.
bound together with:

Brahe Tycho
DE MUNDI AETHERI RECENTIONIBUS PHAENOMENIS LIBER SECUNDUS.
Uraniborg-Prague, 1588-1603
on the page 362-363 a fragment of the Copernicus’ letter „De octava sphaera” to B. Wapowski dated on 23 June 1524
bound together with:
Jöstelius M.
LUANE DELIQUIUM,
Wittenberg 1599
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 6169-6171

Brahe Tycho
EPISTOLARUM ASTRONOMICARUM LIBRI , LIBER I
Uraniborg 1596
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 6175
On pages 235-236 a poem by T. Brahe ” In summi mathematici Nicolai Copernici instrumentum Paralacticum…” written on 23 July 1584.
bound together with:
Brahe Tycho
DE MUNDI AETHERI RECENTIONIBUS PHAENOMENIS LIBER SECUNDUS.
Uraniborg-Prague, 1588-1610
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 6174
On the pgs. 363-363 a fragment of the Copernicus’ letter to B. Wapowski dated on 23 June 1524

Brahe Tycho
EPISTOLARUM ASTRONOMICARUM LIBRI DUO,
Uraniborg 1596
On the pg. 235-236 a poem by T. Brahe ” In summi mathematici Nicolai Copernici instrumentum Paralacticum…” written on 23 July 1584
On p. 240 a poem by T. Brahe ” In D. Nicolai Copernici Toronensis, quam ipsemet sua manu piuxisse dicitus…” dated on 2 October 1584
bound together with:
Brahe Tycho
DE MUNDI AETHERI RECENTIONIBUS PHAENOMENIS,
Uraniborg 1588
on pp. 362-363 a fragment of letter „De octava sphaera” of N. Copernicus to B. Wapowski dated on 23 June 1524
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 6166-6167

Brahe Tycho
DE MUNDI AETHERI RECENTIONIBUS PHAENOMENIS,
Uraniborg 1588
on pp. 362-363 a fragment of letter „De octava sphaera” of N. Copernicus to B. Wapowski dated on 23 June 1524
The National Library, Warsaw, XVI QU 5020 adl.

Brożek Jan
JOANNES BROSCIUS CZELOVENSIS… LECTORI SALUTEM – EPISTOLAE – IN PTOLEMAEUM ET COPERNICUM DUO NATURAE MIRACULA EPIGRAMMA, FRAUENBURGO LOCO OBSERVATIONUM COPERNICI CONSECRATUM. COPERNICUS DE SEIPSO
[Cracow] 1618
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 13208, 585500 I
Brożek (Broscius) Jan (1585-1652), mathematician, professor of the Jagiellonian University, collector of Copernicus’ remembrances

Fontenelle Bernard le Bovyer de
ENTRETIENS SUR LA PLURALITE DES MONDES
Hague 1750
on pp. 77-79 description d’une sphére armillaire, qui représente le sistême de Copernic.
The Jagiellonian Library, 587938 I

Fontenelle Bernard le Bovyer de
CONVERSATION ABOUT MULTITUDE OF THE UNIVERSE (TRANSLATED INTO POLISH FROM FRENCH BY X. EUSTACHY DEMBICKI)
Warsaw 1765
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/SD/472

Froidmont Libertus,
ANT-ARISTARCHUS SIVE ORBIS TERRAE IMMOBILIS LIBER UNICUS. IN QUO DECRETUM… ADVERSUS PYTHAGORICO-COPERNICANOS EDITUM DEFENDITUR
Antwerp 1631
The Jagiellonian Library, 905029 II

Galileo G.
DIALOGO [...] DI GALILEO GALILEI LINCEO [...].
Florence: 1632
Illustrations: copperplates – Ptolemy, Nicholas Copernicus.
The Kornik Library of the Polish academy of Sciences, Sign.: 1251
Note: The cover and the first pages damaged by pests – On the margin and the last page hand-written ink notes. In numeration on the page 71 by mistake E 6 in place of E 4.

Galileo G.
DIALOGO DI GALILEO GALILEI LINCEO … . DOVE NE I CONGRESSI DI QUATTRO GIORNATE SI DISCORRE SOPRA I DUE MASSIMI SISTEMI DEL MONDO TOLEMAICO, E COPERNICANO …
Florence, 1710. 4º
The Nicolas Copernicus Provincial and Municipal Library of Torun, sign. 102 128 (F. 4º 18)
White leather binding, printing bound together with sign.: 29 778 K. 4º 174

Galileo G.
SYSTEMA COSMICUM AUTHORE GALILAEO GALILAEI LYNCEO … IN QUO QUATTUOR DIALOGIS DE DUOBUS MAXIMIS MUNDI SYSTEMATIBUS, PTOLEMAICO ET COPERNICANO … DISSERITUR. EX ITALICA LINGUA LATINE CONVERSUM. ACCESIT APPENDIX GEMINA, QUA SS. SCRIPTURAE DICTA CUM TERRAE MOBILITATE CONCILIANTUR.
Strasbourg 1635 4º
The Nicolaus Copernicus Provincial and Municipal Library of Torun, sign. 102 715 (I. 4º 81)
The Jagiellonian Library, 905030

Galilei G.
SYSTEMA COSMICUM IN QUO DIALOGIS XV. DE DUOBUS… MUNDI SYSTEMATIBUS PTOLEMAEICO ET COPERNICANO…DISSERITUR
Leyden 1641
The Silesian Library of Katowice, sign. 223976 II
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/SD/331
Author portrait, on the frontispiece among others image of N. Copernicus

Galilei G.
SYSTEMA COSMICUM IN QUO DIALOGIS IV DE DUOBUS MAXINIS MUNDI SYSTEMATIBUS PTOLEMAICO & COPERNICANE… DISSERITUR. ACCESSIT… EJUSDEM TRACTATUS DE MOTU…
Leyden 1699
The Silesian Library of Katowice, Sign. 223657 II
The National Library of Warsaw, BN.XVII.3.5611
Author portrait, on the frontispiece among others image of N. Copernicus – different from one in publication of 1641.

Gassendi Pietro
INSTITUTIO ASTRONOMICA IUXTA HYPOTHESEIS TAM VETERUM, QVAM COPERNICI, ET TYCHONIS. DICATA A… EIVSDEM ORATIO INAUGURALIS ITERATO EDITA
Parisiis, 1647
The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow,12992 II (……………………………………………..)

Gassendi Petrus
INSTITUTIO ASTRONOMICA IUXTA HYPOTHESES TA VETERUM QUAM COPERNICI ET TYCHONIS…
London 1675
The Jagiellonian Library, 585303 I

Gassendi Petrus
INSTITUTIO ASTRONOMICA IUXTA HYPOTHESES TA VETERUM QUAM COPERNICI ET TYCHONIS…
Amsterdam, 1680
The Pomeranian Library of Szczecin
The National Library of Warsaw, BN. XVII. 3.20302

Gassendus Petrus
TYCHONIS BRAHEI, EQUITIS DANI, ASTRONOMORUM CORYPHAEI VITA. AUTHORE PETRO GASSENDO [...] ACCESSIT NICOLAI COPERNICI, GEORGII PEURBACHII ET JOANNIS REGIOMONTANI, ASTRONOMORUM CELEBRIUM, VITA.
Paris 1654
The Nicolaus Copernicus Provincial and Municipal Library of Torun, sign. 102 128 ( F. 4º18)
The National Library of Warsaw, BN.XVII.3.1598

Gassend Pierre
TYCHONIS BRAHEI, EQUITIS DANI, ASTRONOMORUM CORYPHAEI VITA. AUTHORE PETRO GASSENDO [...] ACCESSIT NICOLAI COPERNICI, GEORGII PEURBACHII ET JOANNIS REGIOMONTANI, ASTRONOMORUM CELEBRIUM, VITA.
Hague, 1655
Library of National Museum in Warsaw, SD 3530
Including two copperplate portraits of Tychon de Brahe and Copernicus (engr. J. van Meurs).
The Pomeranian Library of Szczecin
The Nicolaus Copernicus Provincial and Municipal Library of Torun, sign. 326(A.413)
The National Library of Warsaw, BN.XVII. 3.5529 (mf. 73368), BN.XVII. 3.5621 (Mf. 73368)
The Jagiellonian Library, 58465 II

Gottsched Joh. Christ.
GEDÄCHTNISSREDE AUF… NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Leipzig. 1748
The Jagiellonian Library, 241358 III

HARMONIA MACROCOSMICA SEV ATLAS UNIVERSALIS ET NOVUS TOTIUS UNIVESI CREATI COSMOGRAPICUM GENERALEM ET NOVAM EXHIBEN IN GUA… LABORE ANDREAE CELLARII
Amstelodami 1708
5 x 51 cm,
The Pomeranian Library of Szczecin
copperplate maps with decorative cartouches

Hartknoch Christophorus
ALT- UND NEUES PREUSSEN: ODER PREUSSISCHER HISTORIEN…
Frankfurt 1684
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/SD/23, MF/SD/686
Including: image of N. Copernicus and the oldest view of Frombork

Haynisch Christophorus Jo.
2.D.B.V. SYSTEMA COPERNICANUM SCRIPTURAE SACRAE NON ESSE OPPOSITUM…
Jena 1724
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/SD/715

HYPOTHESES ORBIU COELESTIUM.. CUM TABULIS ALPHONSINIS ET COPERNICI…
Strasbourg ( after 1 March 1568)
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 1538

Kepler, Joannes
EPITOME ASTRONOMIAE COPERNICANAE [...]. AUTHORE JOANNE KEPPLERO [...].
Linz 1618
[Pars 1:] De doctrina sphaericâ [...].
Illuastrations:the sky, the diagrams, the schemas; woodcut
note: handwritten notes and underlining
[Pars 2:] Physica coelestis [...] et [...] principia doctrinae [...]
[Includes:] Epitomes astronomiae Copernicanae Vsitata forma Quaestionum [et] Responsionum conscriptae , Libri V. VI. VII. Quibus propriè Doctrina Theorica [...]. Authore Ioanne Kepplero [...]. Francofurti, Sumptibus Godefridi Tampachaij. Anno M.DC.XXI pg. [12],641-932
Note: between pg. 828 and 829 there is a page on which the table should be fixed.
The Kornik Library of Polish Academy of Sciences, Signature: 11498
The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, 5763 old prints
The National Library of Warsaw, W. 14943 9 C.IX.14
Lack of volume II and the front page V. I

Kepler Johannes
EPITOME ASTRONOMIAE COPERNICANAE USITATA FORMA QUAESTIONUM ET RESPONSIONUM CONSCRIPTA, INQUE VII. LIBROS DIGESTA …
Frankfurt, 1635
The Nicolaus Copernicus Provincial and Municipal Library of Torun, sign. 6072 (C. V. 8º 206)
The Jagiellonian Library, 585457 I
The Silesian Library of Katowice, Sign.2293181
The National Library of Warsaw, BN. XVII. 3.5295

Kepler J.
PRODROMUS DISSERTATIONUM COSMOGRAPHICARUM.. ADDITUS EST.. NARRATIO M. GEORGII JOACHIMI RHETICI DE LIBRIS REVOLUTIONUM.. NICOLAI COPERNICI
Tübingen, 1596
The Silesian Library of Katowice, Sign 229375 I
The National Library of Warsaw, BN. XVI. Qu. 7179 adl.
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 5810, Cimelia 6413

Kromer Marcin
NICOLAI COPERNICI EPITAPHIUM FRUËBURGI IN MARMOREA TABULE,
[s. l.] [s. a.] [1618]
The Jagiellonian Library, Cimelia 6182, Cimelia 1321

Lipstorpius D.
SPECIMINA PHILOSOPHIAE CARTESIANAE QUIBUS ACCEDIT EJUSDEM AUTHORIS COPERNICUS REDIVIVUS…
Leyden, 1653
The Silesian Library of Katowice, sign. 233079 II

Magini Giovani Antonio
NOVAE COELESTIUM URBIUM THEORICAE CONGRUENTESCUM OBSERVATIONIBUS N… C…
Venice 1589
The Jagiellonian Library, 940312 III

Maginus Joannes Antonius
NOVAE COELESTIUM ORBIUM THEORICAE CONGRUENTES CUM OBSERVATIONIBUS N. COPERNICI…
Moguntiaci, 1608
The National Library of Warsaw, BN.XVI. ). 4483

Mangard Pierre
DISPUTATIO ASTRONOMICA INAUGURALIS DE SYSTEMO C…
Leyden 1744
The Jagiellonian Library, 222101 II

Miverius Daniel
APOLOGIA PRO PHILIPPO LANSBERGIO AD JACOBUM CHRISTMANNUM IN QUA PROP. 16. LIB. IV. TRIANGULORUM LANDSBERGII,LLL ITEMQUE REGIOMONTANI, COPERNICI ET RELIQUORUM… MATHEMATICORUM DOCTRINA A CALUMNIS… DEFENDITUR… ADDICITUR DENIQUE EPHEMERIS MOTUS SOLARIS ANNI… 1603…
Mittelburgi, 1607?
The National Library of Warsaw, BN. XVI. O. 6115 adl.

Mulerius N.
TABULAE FRISICAE LUNAE-SOLARES QUADRUPLICEA E FONTIBUS CL. PTOLEMAEI, REGIS ALFONSI, NIC. COPERNICI ET TYCHONIS BRAHE RECENS CONSTRUCTAE OPERA ET STUDIO NICOLAI MULERI….
Alcmariae 1611
The Silesian Library of Katowice, sign. 233923 II, 223486 II
The Jagiellonian Library, 311205 II. St. Dr.
The Nicolaus Copernicus Provincial and Municipal Library of Torun, sign. 102 475
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/SD/30
bound together with:
Paulo Guldio
REFUTATIO ELENCHI CALENDARII GREGORIANIA…
Moguntiae 1616
and with the: CALENDARIUM ROMANUM VETUS FORMA JULIANO.. METHODO PASCHALI DIONYSIANIS, ….EX ACCURATISSIMIS OBSERVATIONIBUS TYCHONIANIS.
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/SD/93
bound together with:
CALENDARIUM ROMANUM VETUS FORMA JULIANO.. METHODO PASCHALI DIONYSIANIS, ….EX ACCURATISSIMIS OBSERVATIONIBUS TYCHONIANIS.

Morin Joannes Baptista
FAMOSI ET ANTIQUI PROBLEMATIS DE TELLURIS MOTU VEL QUIETE HACTENUS OPTATE SOLUTIO
Paris, 1631
The Jagiellonian Library, 905027 II

Puvceri Casparis
HYPOTHESES ASTRONOMICAE SEV THEORIAE PLANETARUM EX PTOLEMEI ET ALIORUM VETERUM DOCTRINA AD OBSERVATIONES NICOLAI COPERNICI,
Wittenberg 1574
The Regional Museum in Torun, inv. no MT/H/S/36

Reusner N.
ICONES SIVE IMAGINES VIRIRUM LITERIS ILLUSTRIUM
Argentorati 1590
The Silesian Library of Katowice, Sign. 229512 I
Incl. Copernicus’ portrait (p.115) and epigrams on him (pp.116-117)

John Wilkins
VERHEIDIGTER COPERNICUS, ODER CURIOSER UND GRÜNDLICHER BEWEISS DER COPERNICANISCZEN GRUNDSÄTZE. AUS DEM ENGL. INS TEUTSCHE ÜBERS. -
Leipzig, 1713
The National Museum in Poznan Sign. III.. M. c.2
The Jagiellonian Library, 586181 I

Zajączkowski J. :
PHILOSOPHICAL DISPUTES ON EARTHQUAKES, THE LIGHTING, ETC. ABOUT POSITION OF THE PLANETS ACCORDING TO COPERNICUS,
Warsaw 1780
The Silesian Library of Katowice, sign. 230999 I

Zimmermann J. J.
SCRIPTURA S. COPERNIZANS SUE POTIUS ASTRONOMIA COPERNICO-SCRIPTURARIA BIPARTITA, DAS IST: EIN GANTZ NEU=UND SEHR CURIOSER ASTRONOMISCHER BEWEISSTHUM, DES COPERNICANISCHEN VELT= GEBÄUDES AUS HEIL.SCHRIFT,….. NEBES UNTERMENGTE – ERLÄUTERUNG EINIGER CARTHESIANISCHEN UND CHYMISCHEN GEHEIMNISSEN…
Hamburg 1736
The Silesian Library of Katowice, sign. 231639 I