| YEAR |
BOOK |
SUBJECT |
CONTRIBUTION |
| [1514] |
Commentariolus |
'Little commentary' on
mathematical astronomy. |
Unpublished, privately circulated
manuscript foreshadowing Copernicus' De Revolutionibus. |
| 1524 |
Letter Against Werner |
Motion of the eighth sphere:
procession & trepidation of equinoxes. |
Demonstrates & outlines theory
of precession of equinoxes.
|
| 1540 |
[Narratio prima] |
'First Report' by G.J. Rheticus
on behalf of Copernicus. |
Published 'first' account to foreshadow
De
Revolutionibus.
|
| 1543 |
De Revolutionbus
orbium coelestium |
On the Revolutions of the
Heavenly Orbs. Mathematical
astronomy & physicalist / realist cosmology. |
Extended epicyclic astronomy of
Ptolemy & asserted realist heliocentric cosmology; improved tables,
later recalculated & published as Prutenic Tables. |
