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
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
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
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…the Polish nobility; an event that is regarded as the birth of the noble democracy in Poland, which lasted until the country's demise in 1795. In 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was born, and in 1501 Polish king John I Albert died in Toruń; his heart was buried in St. John's Cathedral. In 1500, the Tuba Dei, the largest church…
"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