⚠The image shows some bleed-through from the preceding page at the top. There are handwritten provenance marks in ink and pencil in the top and right margins.

~~Of the Martyr of Noscantia~~ original: "Martyris Noscantiensis"; this is a crossed-out ownership mark, likely referring to a specific religious house or locality. 14 B 40 A library shelfmark or catalog number.

NICOLAUS CO-

PERNICUS OF THORN

ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE

heavenly spheres, Six Books.

Library of the National Academy. original: "Lib. Acad. marional."

66 1796
Likely an inventory number or date of acquisition.

God the Lord — God of all shall be [mine].

original Hebrew: "אלהים יהוה אלהי כל יהיה". This is a personal religious motto added by a former owner of the book, expressing a vow of faith similar to those found in the Old Testament.

P. K. shelf 2 number 13

In this newly produced and published work, studious reader, you have the motions of the stars, both the fixed stars and the planets erraticarum: literally "wandering stars," the traditional term for planets, restored from both ancient and recent observations; and furthermore, adorned with new and wonderful hypotheses. You also have very convenient tables, from which you can calculate these motions for any time with great ease. Therefore, buy, read, and enjoy.

Let no one untrained in geometry enter.

original Greek: "Ἀγεωμέτρητος οὐδεὶς εἰσίτω." This famous phrase was traditionally said to have been inscribed at the entrance to Plato's Academy in Athens, emphasizing that mathematics is the essential foundation for understanding the universe.

Nuremberg, at the press of Johannes Petreius,

In the year 1543.