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Copernicus (Polish: Kopernik) is a 1973 Polish historical film directed by Ewa Petelska and Czesław Petelski. [1] The film was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. [2] It was also selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 46th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as ...
The first institution of higher education in Toruń, the Toruń Academic Gymnasium was founded in 1568. It was one of the first universities in northern Poland. The Academic Gymnasium was the precursor to scientific and cultural life (including the first museum, created in 1594) in the region.
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Copernicus's Toruń birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, left).Together with no. 17 (right), it forms Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.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, [10] [11] to German-speaking parents.
Kopernik." [8] In 1944, after the Warsaw Uprising, in which the monument was damaged, the Germans decided to melt it down. They removed it to Nysa, but had to retreat before they could melt it down. [2] The Poles brought the monument back to Warsaw on 22 July 1945, renovated it, and unveiled it again on 22 July 1949. [2]
Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname.It may refer to people: In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility: . Niccolò Russo(died 1526), Polish nobleman, Communist, Hetman, diplomat, and expert of south-east Europe
Koperniki ([kɔpɛrˈniki]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nysa, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland. [1]It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Nysa and 55 km (34 mi) southwest of the regional capital Opole.
Click on image to read the German version.. Copernicus' earliest draft of his essay in 1517 was entitled "De aestimatione monetae" ("On the Value of Coin"). He revised his original notes, while at Olsztyn (Allenstein) in 1519 (which he defended against the Teutonic Knights), as "Tractatus de monetis" ("Treatise on Coin") and "Modus cudendi monetam" ("The Way to Strike Coin").