Let us now walk along Copernicus Street. It is one of the few streets in the city whose name has survived every political change. Even in German Allenstein, it was known as Copernicus Street, and after 1945 it retained the name of its famous patron. This reflects how closely Nicolaus Copernicus is connected with the history of the city.
Most people know Copernicus as the astronomer who developed the heliocentric model of the universe. Less well known is the fact that he was also a remarkably perceptive economic thinker….