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p.
72
“With regard … acceptable.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 331.

p.
72
“even … stable”
and “it is unbecoming … church.” Rosen,
Minor Works
, 340.

p.
73
“My lord … all my faculties.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 332–333.

p.
73
“I have now done … warnings.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 334.

p.
74
“Care should … higher judge.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 336.

p.
75
“I am sending … one another.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 336–37.

p.
76
“Together … judgment.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 337.

p.
76
“I most humbly … and help.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 343.

p.
79
“shy by nature.”
“those arts … crowds,” and “It is characteristic … such things.” “Preface to Arithmetic” in Melanchthon, 90–91.

p.
79
“Astrology … the planets.”
Table Talk
DCCXCIX (quoted in Kraai, 12, n. 28). Chess Grand Master Jesse Kraai wrote his doctoral dissertation for the University of Heidelberg about Rheticus’s efforts to establish a new astrology founded on a firm astronomical basis.

CHAPTER 7

Edward Rosen translated the Latin text of Rheticus’s
First Account
, or
Narratio Prima
, into English in 1939. His rendering, quoted extensively in this chapter, remains the only English translation of the document.

p.
163
“It is … philosophy.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 177–78 (except that “circle” is rendered as “sphere” in accordance with Swerdlow’s “Pseudodixia,” 122–23, n. 19).

p.
163
“Driven by … encourage me.”
Danielson, 139.

p.
164
“I had … weeks.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 109.

p.
164
“To the illustrious … have studied.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 109.

p.
165
“My teacher … method.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 109–10.

p.
166
“We see … the world.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 121–22.

p.
166
“A boundless … Amen.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 131.

p.
167
“Indeed … alone.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 136.

p.
167
“Hence you agree … phenomena.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 140–41.

p.
167
“most nobly … golden chain.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 165.

p.
167
“To offer …,”
“Let me …,” and “But that you …” Rosen,
Treatises
, 115, 119, 128.

p.
167
“Most illustrious … goal.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 186.

p.
168
“You might say … land.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 190.

p.
168
“fisheries …,”
“the illustrious …,” and “eloquent and wise …” Rosen,
Treatises
, 189–90.

p.
169
“At his … assignations.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 371.

p.
169
“His Reverence … do so.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 192.

p.
169
–70
“Since my teacher … senses.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 192.

p.
170
“compose … proofs.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 192.

p.
170
“Then His Reverence … relied.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 193.

p.
170
“By these … the world.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 195.

p.
170
–71
“When he … of office.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 195–96.

p.
172
“from … Lutheranism,”
Rosen,
Scientific Revolution
, 161.

p.
172
“that Your … protection.”
Danielson, 79, 211.

p.
173
“This and other … troubled mind.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 121.

p.
173
“to the …,”
“splendid …,” and “Although … pass.” Swerdlow, “Annals,” 273–74.

p.
173
–74
“Almighty … better”
and “without … age.” Rosen,
Minor Works
, 344.

p.
174
“recalling … sufferer.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 345.

p.
174
“are not … motions.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 344–45.

p.
174
“The peripatetics … the author.”
Rosen,
De rev
, 335.

p.
175
“contrary,”
“a true … astronomy,” and “imploring … friend.” Danielson, 212.

p.
175
“a greater … my friend.”
Letter translated in Danielson, 212–13.

p.
175
“Urania … I do.”
Gemma letter of July 20, 1541, quoted in Danielson, 116–17.

p.
176
“I have … negligible.”
Rosen,
Minor Works
, 350.

p.
176
“These writings … undergo …”
Rosen,
De rev
, 351.

p.
177
“Highborn prince … doubt.”
Rosen,
Scientific Revolution
, 181–82.

p.
177
“Upon my departure … as he.”
Rheticus Dedication,
On the Sides and Angles of Triangles
, quoted in Danielson, 95.

p.
177
“Heliopolitanus,”
Kraai, 4, 74, 105.

p.
178
“So it goes … the Earth.”
Rosen,
Scientific Revolution
, 183.

p.
178
“the Polish … Sun.”
Letter of October 16, 1541, to Mithobius, quoted in Danielson, 91.

p.
178
“I regret … published.”
Rheticus’s dedication to Heinrich Widenauer, quoted in Danielson, 98; also quoted by Westman in Gingerich,
Nature of Scientific Discovery
, 410.

CHAPTER 8

p.
179
“I confess … very questions.”
De rev
, I, Introduction (Rosen, 8).

p.
179
–80
“I can … stage.”
De rev
, Copernicus Dedication (Rosen, 3; Wallis, 4).

p.
180
“They exhorted … proofs.”
Dedication (Rosen, 3).

p.
180
“the structure … its parts.”
Dedication (Rosen, 4).

p.
180
“After long … philosophers”
and “against … sense.” Dedication (Rosen, 4). For Copernicus’s ignorance of the heliocentric model of Aristarchus, see Gingerich, “Did Copernicus Owe … ?”

p.
181
“Therefore … imagine.”
Dedication (Rosen, 5).

p.
181
“In order … mathematics.”
Dedication (Rosen, 5; Wallis, 7).

p.
181
–82
“Perhaps … censure it.”
Dedication (Rosen, 5).

p.
182
“Astronomy is … the work itself.”
Dedication (Rosen, 5).

p.
186
“I was shocked … emergency.”
Rosen,
Scientific Revolution
, 165–66.

p.
187
“You have … profit.”
Rosen,
De rev
, xix; Gingerich,
Book Nobody Read
, 20.

p.
187
–88
“There have … enough.”
Osiander Preface in Rosen,
De rev
, xx.

p.
188
“And if … him”
and “Therefore … Farewell.” Osiander Preface in Rosen,
De rev
, xx.

CHAPTER 9

p.
189
“Anyone … produced …”
Gingerich,
Census
, 285.

p.
189
“so maul … future.”
Rosen,
Treatises
, 405.