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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by
Nicolaus Copernicus , title page of 2nd edition of 1566, Basilea, Ex Officina Henricpetrina
Cover of
Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) , 1544
Heinrich Petri (
Latin : Henricus Petri ; 1508–1579), frequently
misdeclined as "Henricus Petrus", and his son Sebastian Henric Petri (1546–1627) were influential early printers in
Basel (Basilea ). In addition to their own names, their
printshop also used the Latin name Officina Henricpetrina .
Among their best known works, both of 1566, the second edition of
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by
Nicolaus Copernicus , first published in 1543 in
Nuremberg by
Johannes Petreius , and of
Narratio Prima by
Georg Joachim Rheticus , published in 1540 in
Danzig (Gdańsk) by
Franz Rhode .
Also in 1566, Officina Henricpetrina published Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera , the most important work by the Portuguese mathematician
Pedro Nunes .
Works
Argonautica , 1572
Liber pantegni , Opera omnia ysaac. Ed. Andreas Turinus. Lugduni 1515; Constantini opera. Apud Henricus Petrus. Basileae 1536/39.
The
Cosmographia ' by
Sebastian Münster (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.
Apollonius of Rhodes (1572).
Argonautica (in Latin). Basileae: ex Officina Henricpetrina.
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