Author
Nicolaus Copernicus is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks. No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
No datable encounters with Copernicus, Nicolaus have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“there is as happiness under (or as Copernicus will have it above) the sun”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (87); Box 6 (87).
Inferred Browne mentions Copernicus as an authority on the position of the sun, alluding to the Copernican heliocentric model.