Nicolaus Copernicus is certainly one of the most famous Poles in the world. No wonder, after all, he led to a real scientific revolution! It was he who ‘stopped the Sun and moved the Earth’, discovering that the planets move around the Sun, not the other way around, as was believed for hundreds of years. Although this citizen of Torun is primarily the author of the famous treatise ‘On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres’, he also had many other interests. Few know that Copernicus, apart from astronomy and mathematics, was an expert in law, medicine and... money. Yes, he also had his influence on the development of the monetary system! A true Renaissance man. Find out what else he was famous for and why his astronomical discoveries were so groundbreaking.