Torun

The Town of Copernicus, the scientist who led his contemporaries to the boundaries of modern science and the philosophy of the Cosmos (born in Toruń on February 19, 1473). His work is called the ‘Copernican Revolution’ – the victory of the mind. In the museum, which is located in his home (on Copernicus Street) the oldest editions of his scientific work and the astronomical equipment with which he studied the Cosmos can be seen. In the nearby St John’s Cathedral, there is the font, where he was baptised and in the Old Town Market there is a 2.6 meter high bronze statue of Copernicus, on a granite plinth on which is engraved in La n: ‘Nicolaus Copernicus Thorunensis Terrae motor, Solis Caelique stator’ (Nicolaus Copernicus, born in Toruń, moved the Earth and stopped the Sun and the Skies).