TY - JOUR AU - Borski, George AU - Kokowski, Michał PY - 2021/09/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Copernicus, his Latin style and comments to Commentariolus JF - Studia Historiae Scientiarum JA - Stud. Hist. Sci. VL - 20 IS - SE - SCIENCE BEYOND BORDERS DO - 10.4467/2543702XSHS.21.013.14044 UR - https://ojs.ejournals.eu/SHS/article/view/7539 SP - 339-438 AB - <p>A methodology of historical or higher criticism and of stylometry/stylochronometry known from Biblical and literary studies is applied to the examination of Nicolaus Copernicus’s writings. In particular, his early work <em>Commentariolus </em>is compared at the level of the Latin language with his later ones (<em>Meditata</em>, <em>Letter against Werner </em>and <em>De revolutionibus</em>) as well as the texts of some other authors. A number of striking stylistic dissimilarities between these works have been identified and interpreted in the light of stylometry/stylochronometry, historical criticism and the history of Copernican research. The conducted research allowed to draw some plausible conclusions about the <em>Sitz im Leben </em>(historical context), the dating of <em>Commentariolus </em>and related matters.</p> ER -