Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 78, Part 7) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780871697875)

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 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.

Author: Westman
ISBN-10: 0871697874
ISBN-13: 9780871697875
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1988
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.44d