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- ↑ Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe (complete edition), Akademie Verlag, Letters of Copernicus,
- ↑ Leopold Friedrich Prowe: Nicolaus Coppernicus, 1884
- Beneke (1889), "Franz Rhode", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol. 28, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 391
- Lappenberg, Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst in Hamburg, S. XXXVII., 1840,
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