Monday, 29 September 2014

Nicolaus Copernicus Monument,Torun

The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument is erected in the  Old Marketplace, in front of the Town Hall. 
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Torun

Fryderyk Abraham Tieck, a sculptor from Berlin created the statue in 1853 commissioned from the German Copernicus Society. It is a cast bronze statue representing Copernicus in a professor's robe, holding an armillary shere in his left hand.


There is an inscription in Latin engraved on the granite plaque which says,"Nicolaus Copernicus, a citizen of Toruń, moved the earth and halted the Sun and the sky".

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