This volume includes critical editions of the biographies and biographical notices written about Copernicus from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries with German translations of the original texts in Latin French Italian and Polish The second part provides a complete catalogue of all the early portraits and images of Copernicus compiled and annotated by Gudula Metze This lists all known visual representations of Copernicus from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and supersedes all earlier publications on Copernican iconography