Narratio prima

…was first published, in the Narratio prima (1540 and 1541, “First Narration”), it was not under Copernicus’s own name but under that of the 25-year-old Georg Rheticus. Rheticus, a Lutheran from the University of Wittenberg, Germany, stayed with Copernicus at Frauenburg for about two and a half years, between 1539…