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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