Heinrich Petri (; 1508–1579), frequently misdeclined as "Henricus Petrus", and his son Sebastian Henric Petri (1546–1627) were influential early printers in

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(). In addition to their own names, their

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also used the Latin name . Among their best known works, both of 1566, the second edition of ''

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' (English translation: ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'') is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance. The book ...

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, first published in 1543 in

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Johannes Petreius Johann(es) Petreius (''Hans Peterlein'', ''Petrejus'', ''Petri''; c. 1497, in Langendorf near Bad Kissingen – 18 March 1550, in Nuremberg) was a German printer in Nuremberg. Life He studied at the University of Basel, receiving the Master of ...

, and of ''

Narratio Prima ''De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima'', usually referred to as ''Narratio Prima'' (), is an abstract of Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric theory, written by Georg Joachim Rheticus in 1540. It is an introduction to Copernicus's maj ...

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, published in 1540 in Danzig (Gdańsk) by

Franz Rhode Franz Rhode (also ''Franciscus Rhodus'') (died 1559) was a German printer of the 16th century. Having been active in Marburg between 1529 and 1534, he went to Hamburg in 1536 to print Latin works of the theologist Urbanus Rhegius from Celle. In 15 ...

. Also in 1566, Officina Henricpetrina published ''Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera'', the most important work by the Portuguese mathematician

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Works

* Liber pantegni, Opera omnia ysaac. Ed. Andreas Turinus. Lugduni 1515; Constantini opera. Apud Henricus Petrus. Basileae 1536/39. *The '' Cosmographia by

Sebastian Münster Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, ...

(1488–1552) from 1544 was the earliest German description of the world. * Daniel Santbech, ''Problematum astronomicorum et geometricorum sectiones septem'', published 1561 in Basel by Henrich Petri and Petrus Perna. *

External links

Polybiblio: Regiomontanus, Johannes/Santbech, Daniel, ed. De Triangulis Planis et Sphaericis libri quinque. Basel Henrich Petri & Petrus Perna 1561
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