Copernic skull found in Poland !
Olivier Blaise
A Polish team headed by Professor Jerzy Gassowski announced on the 3rd of November 2005, the discovery of Nicolas Copernicus’ skull, the great Polish astronomer. The theory of the Polish historian Sikorski was proved. Sikorski thought that Copernicus, who was also canon at the Frombork Cathedral should have been buried somewhere near the Saint Andrew alter, which he was devoted to. Today it is named the altar of the Saint Cross, found 4th from the right. The custom at the time was that the canons were buried under the altar that they took care of. The skull was reconstructed at the Cental Laboratory of Criminology of the Polish police. It shows a extraordinary resemblance to the portraits of Copernicus, notably those conserved at the Copernicus Museum in Torun.
Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027218 Torun, Portrait of Nicolas Copernicus. Anonymous artist, Torun 16th century.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027231 Torun, portrait of Nicolas Copernicus according to the epitaph at the Saints John Cathedral, gift of M. Pyrnesius around 1580.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027244 The Frombork cathederal and a part of the fortress seen from the belfry or Radziejowski Tower.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027243 Frombork, baroque interior of the cathederal. Copernicus is buried here, probably underneath altar of the Sacred Cross.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027242 Frombork, In the Copernicus tower, his work cabinet has been reconstructed. The " De revolutionibus " was written here.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027262 Cracow, " De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ". The manuscript is preciously conserved at the Jagellon University library. This manuscript is listed by Unesco in the "Memory of the World" program.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027224 Torun " Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De Revolutionibus Orbium coelestium " Libri VI, Nuremberg 1543.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027223 Torun, engraving de Jakub van Meurs for the work of de Piotr Gassend, " Nicolai Copernici Astronomi Illustris Vita ", the Hague 1654.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027214 Freestyle drawing from the 17th century of the Ptolemy system where earth is in the center of the universe.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027213 Freestyle drawing from the 17th century of the copernician system where earth is orbiting around the sun.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027212 What to find at the end of the world if the Universe have a limit ?
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027271 Cracow, Collegium Maius. Library and Museum entrance.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027265 Cracow, " De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ". The Jagellon University library preciously conserves the original manuscript in which Copernic exposes his heliocentric theory. This photography was taken in the Jagellon room where Copernic was diplomed
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027222 Torun Facsimile of the manuscrit " De Revolutionibus " & wooden astrolab dated 16th century.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027270 Cracow, the library of the Collegium Maius. In the foreground a reconstruction of Copernicus' armillary sphere. The original no longer exists.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027269 Cracow, the celestial globe of the astronomer Martin Bylica of Olkusz (1480). The student Copernicus certainly saw them and probably even used them. In the background, a copy of Copernicus portrait.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027268 Cracow, torquetum of Martin Bylica of Olkusz (1487). In the background, Martin Bylica's astrolab (1480).
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027267 Cracow, the golden globe (around 1510). This globe is composed of an artistic clock which turns around an armillary sphere. This is the oldest of its kind which includes America.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027266 Astrolabe of Martin Bylica of Olkusz (1480), Cracow, Poland.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027264 Cracow, statue of Copernicus located in the entrance hall of the Academy of Science in Cracow. Sculpted by Valerien Gadomski in 1872.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027254 Olsztyn, statue of Nicolas Copernicus by Fransziszek Stynkiewicz, patinated plaster, 20th century.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027263 Cracow, Nicolas Copernicus at Frombork. Painted by Matejko in 1873. There are many copies of this painting in Poland. The original is found at the Collegium Novum in Cracow.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027219 Torun, Aleksander Lesser (1814 – 1884), " The last moments of Nicolas Copernicus ", 19th century, oil.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027229 Torun, Ulica Kopernika, Copernicus Street. Every Polish town has a " Copernicus Street ".
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027228 Torun, Ulica Kopernika, Copernicus Street. Every Polish town has a " Copernicus Street ".
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027234 Torun, Saints Johns' Cathederal. The oldest church in Torun, it is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist. It is today the cathedral of the new diocese of Torun (1992).
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027233 Torun, Saints Johns' Cathederal. The oldest church in Torun, it is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist. It is today the cathedral of the new diocese of Torun (1992).
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027230 Torun, statue of Copernicus inside Saints Johns' Cathederal.
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027226 Torun, graduate of the Mikojal Kopernik University, Alexander Wolszczan, posing with the portrait of Nicolas Copernicus in front of the Copernicus Museum, is the worthy successor of Copernicus. This astrophysician was the first to discover the first plan
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Olivier Blaise / PIcturetank BLO0027216 Torun, graduate of the Mikojal Kopernik University, Alexander Wolszczan, poses here with one of the astrolabs of the Kopernik Museun of Torun together with the director of the observatory.
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