| Year | Book | Subject | Contribution |
| [1514] | Commentariolus | 'Little commentary' on mathematical astronomy. | Unpublished, privately circulated manuscript foreshadowing Copernicus' De Revolutionibus. |
| 1524 | Letter Against Werner | Motion of the eighth sphere: procession & trepidation of equinoxes. | Demonstrates & outlines theory of precession of equinoxes. |
| 1540 | [Narratio prima] | 'First Report' by G.J. Rheticus on behalf of Copernicus. | Published 'first' account to foreshadow De Revolutionibus. |
| 1543 | De Revolutionbus orbium coelestium | On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs. Mathematical astronomy & physicalist / realist cosmology. | Extended epicyclic astronomy of Ptolemy & asserted realist heliocentric cosmology; improved tables, later recalculated & published as Prutenic Tables. |