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This volume contains critical editions of all of Copernicus's minor mathematical and scientific works with commentaries and German translations. Taking into account the latest developments in Copernicus research it includes the "Commentariolus", the "Wapowski-letter on the movement of the eighth sphere", the "Notebook in Uppsala" with Copernicus's astronomical observations, the "Trigonometry", the "Table of sunrises and sunsets" and, for the first time, all the mathematical and scientific notes Copernicus wrote in books of his library. Furthermore Johannes Werner's "Treatise on the movement of the eighth sphere" was critically edited and translated into German for the first time since the Editio princeps in 1522.

Complements the previous collection of articles by the author, "Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics", and deals with the development of mathematics in Europe from the 12th century to about 1500. Including the discoveries of Johannes Regiomontanus in trigonometry and algebra, this book cover the knowledge and application of Euclid's "Elements".