NCT Archives Letters Written by Copernicus

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Sammlung Darmstaedter, sign. J 1530

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Frombork, 27 June 1541

Original: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Sammlung Darmstaedter, sign. J 1530.

Nicholas Copernicus (Nicolaus Copernicus) thanks John Dantiscus, the Bishop of Varmia, for sending him a letter with an elegant and appropriate epigram designed for readers of his books [i.e. De revolutionibus] which supercedes Copernicus' merits and equals the favour which the Bishop usually reserves for scholars. Thus, he will place it at the beginning of his work if it deserves the merit of being adorned by the Bishop.

Further reading

1. Further reading: Biskup M., Regesta Copernicana (Wrocław, 1973).
2. Nicholas Copernicus Minor Works (Warsaw-Cracow, 1985).