Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS III
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS V
4. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VII
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. I. The Libraries of Tycho Brahe and of Paul Wittich
7. IA. The Misleading Attribution of the Copernican Annotations 5
8. IB. Master Paul Wittich 8
9. IC. Tycho's Attempts to Acquire Wittich's Library 20
10. ID. The Prague Tychoniana 23
11. II. Wittich's Copernican Annotations
12. IIA. Reinhold's Annotations and the Liege De revolutionibus 27
13. IIB. The Vatican Wittich Copy 31
14. IIC. The Prague and Wroclaw Wittich Copies 33
15. IID. Why Annotate Four Copies of De revolutionibus 36
16. III. Reconstructing the Universe
17. Introduction 42
18. IIIA. Tycho's Early Transformations and Wittich's Visit 45
19. IIIB. A Theft in the Castle? 50
20. IIIC. Constructing Tycho's Cosmology 69
21. Appendix
22. I. The Vatican Annotations 77
23. II. Wittich's Obituary in Silesia Togata 141
24. Index 144
25. PUBLICATIONS OF The American Philosophical Society 149