Nicolaus Copernicus

[sha:23c737c5c260e411] Autograph of Nicolaus Copernicus, from "Samuel Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia with illustrations and maps" edited in sixteen volumes 1898-1904 (plus two volumes of "suplement", 1911 & 1912).

[sha:57aabd017b60a932] Mosaic made out of public domain pictures available at Wiki Commons

[sha:1242dea35a50d306] Nikolaus Copernicus - Locationes mansorum desertorum

[sha:38322a6d586c375c] Text of the original epitaph for Nicolaus Copernicus that had been erected in 1581 in the cathedral of Frauenburg (Frombork) by bishop w:Martin Cromer (1512-1589). The original in the cathedral has va

[sha:92fbdc1a1355d8dd] Cover of Rheticus' "De libris revolutionum Copernici Narratio Prima Excusum Gedani", (1540). The first published account of Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric theory.

[sha:210bf0d5a970f213] Nicolaus Copernicus' letter in German to Duke Albrecht of Prussia, dated 25 June 1541. Reproduction of the manuscript, as taken from w:Leopold Prowe's (1821-1887) Nicolaus Coppernicus, 1884, Tafel III

[sha:9448f87f61c7f37f] Sarkofag z doczesnymi szczątkami Mikołaja Kopernika wystawiony w Bazylice katedralnej św. Jakuba w Olsztynie.

[sha:e90f22e977a2aade] This is a portrait, by an unknown painter, of Lucas Watzenrode the Younger (1447-1512), maternal uncle and patron of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). A reproduction is at the Nicolaus Cope