"Poles and Germans have a common history of great scientists: Today we no longer perceive Copernicus, Hevelius, Schopenhauer and Fahrenheit as the property of one nation but as representatives of one transnational culture."
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Johannes Rau, President of Germany (1999-2004), in a 1999 address to the Polish people, in Public Speeches and Addresses (September 1999).
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Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 – 1543
preuĂźischer Astronom, Domherr, Jurist und Mediziner
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