'''Nicolaus Copernicus''' ([[Theodisce]]: ''Niklas Koppernigk'', [[Lingua Polonica]]: ''Mikołaj Kopernik'';<ref>Thorn, 1480 (Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe: ''Urkunden, Akten und Nachrichten: Texte und Übersetzungen'', ISBN 3-05-003009-7 [http://books.google.com/books?id=aEZrYxkjLkIC&pg=PA23&vq=Koppernigk&source=gbs_search_r&cad=0_1 S. 23ff], Marian Biskup: ''Regesta Copernicana'', Ossolineum, 1973, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3gkLAAAAMAAJ&q=Koppernigk&pgis=1#search p. 32], etc. [[Polonice]] temporibus recentioribus ''Mikołay Kopernik'' nuncupatur, e.g. anno 1778 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dNY5AAAAcAAJ&dq=%2BKopernik&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1780&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1790&as_brr=1&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=%20Kopernik&f=false p. 48], vel ''Mikołaj Kopernik'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=C0YBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA30&dq=Mikolaj+Kopernik&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1820&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=Mikolaj%20Kopernik&f=false vide p. 30].</ref>, [[Lingua Polonica]]: ''Mikołaj Kopernik''; [[1473]]–[[1543]]), origine "[[Thorunium|Torinensis]]" vel "Tornaeus", fuit [[mathematicus]] et [[astronomus]] atque conditor theoriae heliocentricae, quam in libro [[Latine]] scripto ''[[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium|Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Libri VI]]'' [[Norimberga]]e anno [[1543]] promulgavit. Ideo "terrae stator solis motor" appellatur.
[[Fasciculus:Copernicus-Boissard.gif|thumb|200px|left|Nicolaus Copernicus Tornaeus Borussus Mathematicus (Theodor de Bry, Jean-Jacques Boissard, Icones virorum illustrium doctrina et eruditione praestantium, Frankfurt 1598)]]
