Johannes Petreius

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Johann(es) Petreius a.k.a. Hans Peterlein (c. 1497 near Bad Kissingen - March 18, 1550, Nuremberg) was a German printer in Nuremberg.

His most famous work is the original edition of Nicolaus Copernicus's De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in 1543, after an initiative of Georg Joachim Rheticus and Tiedemann Giese. The inclusion of a foreword anonymously written by the Lutheran philosopher Andreas Osiander, stating that the whole work is only a simple hypothesis, which contradicts the content of Copernicus' work, is a rather controversial feature of the edition by Petreius.

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Michael Stifel, Arithmetica Integra. Johann Petreius, Nürnberg, 1544
Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI"[1], Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1543
Girolamo Cardano, Artis Magnae sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber I, Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1545
Girolamo Cardano, De subtilitate rerum. Libri XXI. Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1550