Johannes Petreius

Johann(es) Petreius a.k.a. "Hans Peterlein" (c. 1497 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, which contradicts the content of Copernicus' work, is a rather controversial feature of the edition by Petreius.

Works

*RITHAYMER Georg , De orbis terrarum situa compendium.Johann Petreius, Nürnberg, 1538
*Michael Stifel, Arithmetica Integra. Johann Petreius, Nürnberg, 1544
*Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI" [http://www.hao.ucar.edu/Public/education/bios/derevolutionibus.html] , 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

* [http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bytype/prints/ornament/byartist/display00082.html Petreius' ornaments A-F]
* http://www.nzz.ch/2005/08/06/li/articleCZUON.html