Copernicus in Europe: Kraków-Budapest-Vienna-Linz-Padva-Mediolan-Lyon-Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam-Gettingen (notes from a peregrination around Europe with Copernicus' work to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy)

Abstract

Record of a peregrination with a reprint of Copernicus' work "De revolutionibus" across Europe to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. Kraków- Budapest- Vienna- Linz- Padua- Milan -Lyon- Paris- Brussels-Amsterdam- Göttingen. Eleven famous European cities, 5,000 kilometres in ten days and one question: What image of Copernicus has survived to the present day?  Europe does not know Copernicus very well. Few people know what his theory was about and what it meant for the development of mankind. However, it was Copernicus who turned the entire universe upside down. He wrote a work for an elite of scientists, but we are all marked by it. And everywhere, in the Piazza Dumo in Milan, by the Amsterdam canals and in front of the Sorbonne in Paris, we met people, young and old, who were aware of it. They were surprisingly numerous.