Copernicus triumphans, sive de parallaxi orbis annui tractatus epistolaris. ad celsissimum & serenissimum principem ac dominum, dominum Christianum Daniæ & Norvegiae &c. hæredem

by Peder Horrebow

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First edition

Copenhagen: At the author's expense by Joannes Grammius, 1727 . First edition of one of the earliest printed works to announce stellar parallax, declaring that the Copernican system had at last been proved by observation. Drawing on Rømer’s meridian records of bright stars such as Sirius and Vega—the same observational tradition that had earlier enabled Rømer to establish the finite velocity of light—Horrebow

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