Johannes Petreius

Johannes Petreius

Original edition, Nuremberg 1543

Johann(es) Petreius a.k.a. Hans Peterlein (c. 1497 in Langendorf near Bad Kissingen - March 18 1550, Nuremberg) was a German printer in Nuremberg.

His most famous work is the original edition of Nicolaus Copernicus's De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in 1543, after an initiative of Georg Joachim Rheticus and Tiedemann Giese.

The inclusion of a foreword anonymously written by the Lutheran philosopher Andreas Osiander, stating that the whole work is only a simple hypothesis and intended to facilitate computation, which contradicts the content of Copernicus' work, is a rather controversial feature of the edition by Petreius. Petreius hat sent a copy to Hieronymus Schreiber, an astronomer from Nuremberg who died in 1547 in Paris, but left a note in the book about the authorship of Osiander. Via Michael Mästlin, the book came to Johannes Kepler, who uncovered Osianders deed.

Works

• Georg Rithaymer: De orbis terrarum situa compendium. Johann Petreius, Nürnberg, 1538 [1]
• Michael Stifel, Arithmetica Integra. Johann Petreius, Nürnberg, 1544
• Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI [2], Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1543
• Girolamo Cardano, Artis Magnae sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber I, Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1545
• Girolamo Cardano, De subtilitate rerum. Libri XXI. Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1550

External links

• Pallmann (1887), "Johannes Petreius", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 25, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 518–519
• Petreius' ornaments A-F
• http://www.nzz.ch/2005/08/06/li/articleCZUON.html
• http://www.ta-dip.de/56,0,petrejus-johannes-,index,0.html
• http://www.langendorf.net/buch.htm