References for Georg Joachim Rheticus

Version for printing
  1. E Rosen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. D Danielson, The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution (New York, 2006)

Articles:

  1. R C Archibald, The Canon Doctrinae Triangvlorvm (1551) of Rheticus (1514-1576), Math. Tables and Other Aids to Computation 7 (1953), 131.
  2. R C Archibald, Rheticus, with special reference to his Opus Palatinum, Math. Tables and Other Aids to Computation 3 (1949), 552-561.
  3. Ju A Belii, Georg Joachim Rheticus - student and continuer of the work of Copernicus (Bulgarian), Fiz.-Mat. Spis. B\cdprime lgar. Akad. Nauk. 18(51) (1) (1975), 54-68.
  4. P Bockslaele, Adrianus Romanus and the trigonometric tables of Georg Joachim Rheticus, in S S Demidov et al. (eds), Amphora : Festschrift for Hans Wussing on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Basel- Boston- Berlin, 1992), 55-66.
  5. K H Burmeister, Georg Joachim Rhetikus 1514-1574, eine Bio-Bibliographie II (Wiesbaden, 1967-68).
  6. R Hooykaas, Rheticus's lost treatise on Holy Scripture and the motion of the Earth, Journal for the history of astronomy 15 (1984), 77-80.
  7. E Rosen, Three Copernican Treatises. The Commentariolus of Copernicus. The Letter against Werner. The Narratio prima of Rheticus, Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies 30 (New York, 1939).
  8. E Rosen, Rheticus as editor of Sacrobosco, in For Dirk Struik (Dordrecht, 1974), 245-248.
  9. G Rosi'nska, Don't give to Rheticus what is Regiomontanus' (Polish), Kwart. Hist. Nauk. Tech. 28 (3-4) (1983), 615-619.
  10. N M Swerdlow, Annals of scientific publishing : Johannes Petreius's letter to Rheticus, Isis 83 (2) (1992), 270-274.
  11. R S Westman, The Melanchthon circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg interpretation of the Copernican theory, Isis 66 (232) (1975), 165-193.
JOC/EFR June 1998

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