The Sleepwalkers (276 page)

88

Prowe
I, 2, p. 361.

89

Thus
the
otherwise
so
scholarly
and
reliable
Zinner
explains
Dantiscus'
demand
that
Copernicus
should
part
with
his
housekeeper,
by
Dantiscus'
"hatred
and
urge
to
oppress
his
intellectual
superior
and
to
deprive
him
of
the
leisure
required
to
complete
his
work.
Dantiscus
achieved
his
aim.
The
work
was
never
completed."
(p.
224).

In
describing
the
relations
between
Copernicus
and
Dantiscus,
Zinner
omits
to
mention
that
Dantiscus
sent
Copernicus
a
contribution
(see
below)
to
be
included
in
the
Revolutions.
He
refers
to
Dantiscus'
contribution
only
in
an
aside,
in
a
different
context
(p.
239).
Zinner's
bias
against
Dantiscus
again
seems
to
have
a
political
motivation.
He
describes
him
as
a
careerist
(p.
224)
who
"entered
the
service
of
the
Polish
King
and
supported
Polish
claims
against
his
own
country,
Prussia"
(p.
221).
He
also
repeats
the
legend
according
to
which
Copernicus
refused
to
obey
Dantiscus'
"order"
to
break
off
relations
with
Sculteti,
and
declared
that
"he
had
a
higher
regard
for
Sculted
than
for
the
other
Canons".
In
the
light
of
Copernicus'
letters
to
Dantiscus
this
seems
hard
to
believe.
The
source
of
this
version
is
a
Polish
author
named
Szulc,
quoted
by
Prowe
(
I,
2,
p.
361).
Prowe,
however,
points
out
in
a
footnote
that
Szulc
does
not
give
his
source
for
the
alleged
statement
by
Copernicus
"though
otherwise
he
always
does
so".
Prowe
himself
is
scrupulously
fair
to
Dantiscus
and
displays
a
detached
attitude
to
the
nationalist
controversy.

90

Prowe
II, p. 168.

91

Prowe
II, p. 418 f.

92

Prowe
I, 2, p. 554.

93

Zinner,
op. cit., p. 244.

94

Ibid.,
p. 245
.

95

Quoted
by Zinner, p. 466.

95a

Ibid.,
p. 259
.

96

Loc.
cit.

97

In
his
letter
to
Rheticus
of
26
July,
1543
(see
note
70),
Giese
says
that
the
"elegant"
biography
of
Copernicus
which
Rheticus
had
written
requires
only
the
addition
of
the
facts
about
the
master's
death
to
be
complete.
In
the
same
letter
he
also
refers
to
the
treatise
which
Rheticus
had
written
to
prove
that
the
doctrine
of
the
motion
of
the
earth
does
not
contradict
Holy
Scripture.

98

Zinner,
op., cit., p. 259.

99

Ibid.,
p. 261
.

100

Loc.
cit.

101

Ibid.,
p. 262
.

102

Prowe
II,
p.
389,
and
Ency.
Brit.
XIX-246d.
Zinner
(p.
262)
gives
the
date
of
Rheticus'
death
as
1574.

103

Prowe
I, 2, p. 387f.

Part
III Chapter II. THE SYSTEM OF COPERNICUS

1

The
first
complete
English
translation
was
published
in
1952
in
the
"Great
Books
of
the
Western
World"
series
(Vol.
16,
Chicago,
transl.
Charles
Glenn
Wallis).

2

Eng.
Brit.
II-584a.

3

Zinner,
op. cit., pp. 273-8.

4

H.
Dingle,
The
Scientific
Adventure
(
London,
1951),
p.
74.

5

London,
1932, p. 26.

6

London,
1949, pp. 26-7.

7

London,
1939, p. 38.

8

Oxford,
1941,
p.
182.

9