Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revoluti
"Toruń portrait" (c. 1580)
Copernicus's Toruń birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, left). Together with no. 17 (right), it forms Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.
Copernicus's maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode the Younger
Collegium Maius at Kraków University, Copernicus's Polish alma mater
Toruń
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Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship a
Nicolaus Copernicus
…1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham's law. Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, to German-speaking parents. His father was a merchant from Kraków and…
Torun panorama zza Wisly 2
Stare Miasto, Ratusz Staromiejski w Toruniu
Rynek Nowomiejski w Toruniu i kościół św. Jakuba
Torun ul. Szeroka od ul. Laziennej do Rynku