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Castle in Lidzbark Warmiński
- Creator: Jerzy Strzelecki (photo)
- Description: Gothic castle in Lidzbark, formerly the property of Warmian bishops, where Copernicus resided in 1503–1509. It is most probably where he made the first draft of the heliocentric theory in his Commentariolus, and translated Theophylact Simocatta’s Letters
Castle in Olsztyn
- Creator: Witold Chmielewski (photo)
- Description: Castle in Olsztyn, former property of the Warmian chapter, where Copernicus resided in 1516–1521 when performing the duties of general administrator of the estates owned by the Warmian chapter
Castle in Olsztyn – administrator’s chamber
- Creator: Witold Chmielewski (photo)
- Description: This chamber, with its impressive diamond vault, served Copernicus as his residence during his stay in Olsztyn
Cathedral hill in Frombork
- Creator: Witold Chmielewski (photo)
Collegium Maius
- Description: View of today’s building of Collegium Maius belonging to the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the former alma mater of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Location: Jagiellonian University Museum
Collegium Maius quadrangle
- Description: View of today’s quadrangle of Collegium Maius, part of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Location: Jagiellonian University Museum
Copernicus Tower in Frombork
- Creator: Witold Chmielewski (photo)
- Description: This corner tower, part of the cathedral hill defence system, belonged to Copernicus in 1503–1543
Copernicus’ astronomical table
- Creator: Witold Chmielewski (photo)
- Description: Copernicus created this astronomical table during his stay in Olsztyn past 1516. The astronomer used the table to compute the course of the sun entering an equinoctial point
Copernicus’ Room
- Description: General view of the Copernicus Room, property of the Jagiellonian University Museum located in Collegium Maius. Astronomical instruments formerly belonging to Marcin Bylica of Olkusz, in the forefront an astrolabe, a celestial globe and a torquetum from the 1480s made by Hans Dorn in Buda, donated to the university by Marcin Bylica. A portrait of Copernicus at the far end of the room
- Location: Jagiellonian University Museum
Epitaph in memory of Copernicus
- Creator: Andrzej Skowroński (photo)
- Description: Renaissance epitaph to the memory of Copernicus in SS Johns’ cathedral in Toruń
Frombork statue of Copernicus
- Creator: Tomasz Zakrzewski (photo)
Nicolaus Copernicus House in Toruń
- Creator: Andrzej Skowroński (photo)
- Description: View of Copernicus Street in Toruń. The tallest house in the street, the property of Copernicus’ parents at the time of his birth and today called 'Dom Mikołaja Kopernika' (Copernicus House) belonging to the Regional Museum in Toruń
Radio-telescope in the Institute of Astronomy of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Piwnice near Toruń
- Creator: Andrzej Romański (photo)
- Description: The Institute of Astronomy of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń has Poland's largest telescope which is 32m in diameter
Statue of Copernicus in the Babelsbeg observatory
- Creator: Fuss (photo)
- Technique: photography
- Date: 1920
- Description: Plaster cast of the statue of Nicolaus Copernicus made by Johan Georg Schadow in 1806 for the Babelsberg astronomical observatory in Potsdam. Photo taken in 1920
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Statue of Copernicus in the Babelsbeg observatory
- Creator: Fuss (photo)
- Technique: photography
- Date: 1920
- Description: Plaster cast of the statue of Nicolaus Copernicus made by Johan Georg Schadow in 1806 for the Babelsberg astronomical observatory in Potsdam. Photo taken in 1920
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Statue of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Creator: Daniel Pach (photo)
- Description: Old Market Square in Toruń features a statue of Nicolaus Copernicus sculpted by Friedrich Tieck and unveiled in 1853

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