Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Nicolaus Copernicus" by Sheila Rabin
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A. Complete Works of Copernicus
In 1972 the Polish Academy of Sciences under the direction of J.
Dobrzycki published critical editions of the Complete Works
of Copernicus in six languages: Latin, English, French, German,
Polish, and Russian. The first volume was a facsimile edition. The
annotations in the English translations are more comprehensive than
the others. The English edition was reissued as follows:
- Minor Works, 1992, trans. E. Rosen, Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press (originally published as volume 3 of
Nicholas Copernicus: Complete Works, Warsaw: Polish
Scientific Publishers, 1985). Referred to herein as
MW.
- On the Revolutions, 1992, trans. E. Rosen, Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press (originally published as volume 2 of
Nicholas Copernicus: Complete Works, Warsaw: Polish
Scientific Publishers, 1978). Referred to herein as
Revolutions.
B. Other Translations of Copernicus’s Works
- On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1955, trans.
C.G. Wallis, vol. 16 of Great Books of the Western World,
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica; 1995, reprint, Amherst: Prometheus
Books.
- On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1976, trans.
and ed. A.M. Duncan, Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
- “The Derivation and First Draft of Copernicus’s
Planetary Theory: A Translation of the Commentariolus with
Commentary,” 1973, trans. N.M. Swerdlow, Proceedings of the
American Philosophical Society, 117: 423–512. (Scholar)
C. Translations of Other Primary Sources
- Bruno, G., 1977, The Ash Wednesday Supper, trans. E.A. Gosselin and L.S. Lerner, Hamden: Archon Books, 1995; reprint, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
- Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes adversus astrologiam
divinatricem, E. Garin (trans. and ed.), 2 vols., Florence:
Vallecchi, 1946, 1952.
- Rheticus, G.J., Narratio prima, in E. Rosen, 1971,
107–96.
D. Secondary Sources
- Bardi, A., 2023, “Copernicus and Axiomatics,” in
Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical
Practice, B. Sriraman (ed.), Cham: Springer,
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19071-2_110-1 (Scholar)
- Blåsjö, V., 2014, “A Critique of the Arguments
for Maragha Influence on Copernicus,” Journal for the
History of Astronomy, 45: 183–195. (Scholar)
- Blumenberg, H., 1987, The Genesis of the Copernican World, R.M. Wallace (trans.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
- Cohen, I.B., 1960, The Birth of a New Physics, Garden
City: Anchor Books; revised edition, New York: W.W. Norton, 1985. (Scholar)
- –––, 1985, Revolutions in Science,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Crowe, M.J., 1990, Theories of the World from Antiquity to the
Copernican Revolution, New York: Dover Publications. (Scholar)
- Feldhay, R. and F.J. Ragep (eds.), 2017, Before Copernicus:
The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth
Century, Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. (Scholar)
- Finocchiaro, M.A., 2002, “Philosophy versus Religion and
Science versus Religion: the Trials of Bruno and Galileo,” in H.
Gatti (ed.), 51–96. (Scholar)
- Gatti, H. (ed.), 2002, Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance, Aldershot: Ashgate. (Scholar)
- Gillespie, C.C. (ed.), 1970–80, Dictionary of Scientific
Biography, New York: Scribner’s. (Scholar)
- Gingerich, O., 1993, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus,
Kepler, New York: American Institute of Physics. (Scholar)
- –––, 2002, An Annotated Census of
Copernicus’ De revolutionibus, Leiden: Brill Academic
Publishers; Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the
Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, New York: Walker &
Company. (Scholar)
- Goldstein, B., 2002, “Copernicus and the Origin of His
Heliocentric System,” Journal for the History of
Astronomy, 33: 219–235. (Scholar)
- Goddu, A., 2010, Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition: Education, Reading, and Philosophy in Copernicus’s Path to Heliocentrism, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- Grendler, P., 2002, The Universities of the Italian
Renaissance, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
- Hallyn, F., 1990, The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler, D. Leslie (trans.), New York: Zone Books. (Scholar)
- Koestler, A., 1989, The Sleepwalkers, London: Penguin,
reprint of 1959 edition. (Scholar)
- Koyré, A., 1957, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1973, The Astronomical Revolution:
Copernicus, Kepler, Borelli, R.E.W. Maddison (trans.), Ithaca:
Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Kuhn, T., 1957, The Copernican Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Morrison, R., 2014, “A Scholarly Intermediary between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe,” Isis, 105: 32–57. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, “Jews as Scientific
Intermediaries in the European Renaissance,” in Feldhay and
Ragep (eds.), 198–214. (Scholar)
- Omodeo, P.D., 2014, Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the
Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation, Leiden:
Brill. (Scholar)
- Ragep, F.J., 2005, “Ali Qushji and Regiomontanus,”
Journal for the History of Astronomy, 36: 359–71. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, “Copernicus and His Islamic Predecessors,” History of Science, 45: 65–81. (Scholar)
- –––, 2016, “Ibn al-Shatir and Copernicus:
The Uppsala Notes Revisited,” Journal for the History of
Astronomy, 47: 395–415. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, “From Tun to Turin: The Twists
and Turns of the Tusi Couple,” in Feldhay and Ragep (eds.),
161–97. (Scholar)
- Rosen, E.,1970a, “Copernicus,” in Gillespie (ed.), 3:
401–11. (Scholar)
- –––, 1970b, “Rheticus,” Gillespie
(ed.), 11: 395–97. (Scholar)
- –––, 1971, Three Copernican Treatises,
3d ed., New York: Octagon Books. (Scholar)
- –––, 1975, “Was Copernicus’
Revolutions Approved by the Pope?” Journal of the
History of Ideas, 36: 531–42. (Scholar)
- –––, 1984, Copernicus and the Scientific
Revolution, Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Co. (Scholar)
- Saliba, G., 2007, Islamic Science and the Making of the
European Renaissance, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
- Shumaker, W., 1979, The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A
Study in Intellectual Patterns, Berkeley: University of
California Press, reprint of 1972 edition. (Scholar)
- Siraisi, N., 1981, Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two
Generations of Italian Medical Learning, Princeton: Princeton
University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, Medieval and Early Renaissance
Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- Swerdlow, N., 1973, “The Derivation and First Draft of
Copernicus’s Planetary Theory: A Translation of the
Commentariolus with Commentary,” Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Society, 117: 423–512. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Copernicus, Nicolaus
(1473–1543),” in Encyclopedia of the Scientific
Revolution, W. Applebaum (ed.), New York: Garland Publishing,
162–68. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, “Copernicus’s Derivation
of the Heliocentric Theory from Regiomontanus’s Eccentric Models
of the Second Inequality of the Superior and Inferior Planets”
Journal for the History of Astronomy, 48: 33–61. (Scholar)
- Swerdlow, N. and O. Neugebauer, 1984, Mathematical Astronomy
in Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus, 2 vols., New York:
Springer-Verlag. (Scholar)
- Westman, R., 1975a, “The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory,” Isis, 66: 165–93. (Scholar)
- –––, 1975b, “Three Responses to the
Copernican Theory: Johannes Praetorius, Tycho Brahe, and Michael
Maestlin,” in Westman (ed.), 1975c. (Scholar)
- –––, (ed), 1975c, The Copernican
Achievement, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, The Copernican Question:
Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order, Berkeley:
University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Yates, F., 1979, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic
Tradition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, reprint of 1964
edition. (Scholar)