Tomb Of Nicolaus Copernicus: Is The Mystery Surrounding Astronomer’s Burial Place Really Solved?
AncientPages.com | April 13, 2018
A. Sutherland - Ancient Pages.com - The Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 -1543) made crucial observations in Rome in 1500. Copernicus's heliocentric worldview was revolutionary and ended the old perceptions. His world view, however, was ignored by the Catholic Church.
For centuries, the tomb and leftovers of Nicolaus Copernicus were sought at the Frombork cathedral, the alleged burial place of the great astronomer.
It was also a place where the great Polish astronomer spent two-thirds of his adult life and was buried.
The first unsuccessful attempts to find the grave of Copernicus were undertaken in 1809 by the Warsaw Scientific Society. Later in 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte after the battle of Prussian Ilawa (now Bagrationowsk, about 75 km east of Frombork), ordered one of his officers, Gerard Gley, to find the grave of Nicolaus Copernicus. No positive results for this search were reported.
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