EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The second volume of the French edition of the Complete Works by Nicolas Copernicus gathers the documents referring to his minor writings, in a facsimile format, while at the same time the first volume, published in 1973, offers the reproduction of the manuscript of De Revolutionibus.

(Extracted from the introduction).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Table des Matières.

-Introduction. Pawel Czartoryski.

-Table des Documents.

-Liste des Bibliothèques et des Archives Où Se Trouvent les Documents Reproduits dans ce Volume.

-Origine des Photographies.

-Documents I-LXVIII.

OUR REVIEW

It has not been easy to gather so many historical documents in a single volume. Not only are published the photographic reproductions of Copernicus's manuscripts, but also others, written by other people, that were copied from original manuscripts that have never reached us.

There are 68 documents in all, in an uninterrupted succession, that are listed at the beginning of the book. They have been ordered in a rational manner: filigrees, letters, copies of lost letters, astronomical and latitude tables, administrative and financial documents, and also samples of minor astronomical writings by this famous astronomer.

This is a monumental work aimed at those readers interested in the study of the history of astronomy, the perfect basis for biographers and people very interested in the work developed by Copernicus.