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Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object

Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactured the 1543 edition as an industrial print object. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactured the 1543 edition as an industrial print object. The instrument is that manufacture, not a unique press Copernicus owned. Nicolaus Copernicus's documented role is: Petreius printed. Copernicus, dying in Frombork, did not set type. The shop is the industrial instrument beside the book's intellectual row.

Context

Named compositors and Rheticus as courier share the shop. Sharing that labour is required. The setting of Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object is the public file around 1543-04-01. Driver industrial-policy-activism is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Two paths: book as teaching; shop as manufacture. Mixed effects of Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object are separate paths.

Why it matters

Improving path from Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object on 1543-04-01. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Nicolaus Copernicus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    Petreius printed. Copernicus, dying in Frombork, did not set type. The shop is the industrial instrument beside the book's intellectual row.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactJohannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 April 1543 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.University of Glasgow Special Collections — De revolutionibus 1543University of Glasgow · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Copernicus, education neighbourhoodStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: University of Glasgow Special Collections — De revolutionibus 1543 at https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/apr2008.html (opens in a new tab) (University of Glasgow). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Copernicus, printing neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/ (opens in a new tab) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: University of Glasgow Special Collections — De revolutionibus 1543 (https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/apr2008.html (opens in a new tab); University of Glasgow). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Copernicus, printing neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Established: a sourced public record of Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object under 1543-04-01 for Nicolaus Copernicus. Established: a sourced public record of Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object under 1543-04-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object. Naming Nicolaus Copernicus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1543-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNicolaus Copernicus
  2. contributed toFactJohannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Johannes Petreius's Nuremberg shop manufactures the 1543 edition as an industrial print object. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cp-nuremberg-print

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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