Excellent text! I have just one small correction. Copernicus was not born in Preussen, but in Poland. Toruń (Thorn) was part of the State of the Teutonic Order until 1454. From 1454 until 1793, it was part of Poland.
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Correct, according to Wikipedia, Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a semiautonomous and multilingual region created within the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. So it was sort of an autonomous region of Poland, therefore the monument in Warsaw.