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  • I wanted to reveal how valued all ancient relics should be, the source of our knowledge about the past, ignorance of which brings shame, and knowledge of which should bring praise.
    • Original text: Pragnąłem odsłonić to, w jakiej cenie powinny być u nas wszelkiego rodzaju pamiątki przeszłości, źródło naszej wiedzy o dziejach, których nieznajomość o ile przynosi wstyd, o tyle przyswojenie sobie zasługuje na pochwałę.
    • Monumenta Sarmatorum viam universare carnis ingressorum
  • Fortuna mutabilis, Deus mirabilis
    • or: Fortuna variabilis, Deus immutabilis
    • to Swedish King Charles X Gustav, when his forces temporarily occupied Polish capital of Warsaw
  • What the world treasures, God considers trash" ("Co świat drogo szacuje, to Bóg ma za śmieci") - Arka testamentów zamykającej w sobie kazania niedzielne
  • Nature according to God's will created some people to follow, and some to lead
    • Original text: Natura z woli Bożej jedne ludzie do posłuszeństwa, a drugie do rozkazowania stworzyła
  • If God had let him live longer, the Poles would have no need to envy the Italians their Palestrina, Lappi, and Vedana" - in the biography of Wacław of Szamotuły
  • On Nicolaus Copernicus, listed as No. LXVII in Scriptorum Polonicorum, Frankfurt/Main 1625, Venice 1627
    • "Nicolaus Copernicus, Torunii in Prussia natus; patre Nicolao Copernico: matre verò, quae erat germana soror Lucae à Watzelrod Toruniensis, Episcopi Varmiensis" [1]
    • "... ita ille Joanne Regiomontano populari suo deficiente, motuum coeli doctrinam discipulis suis restauravit"[2], translated[3] "... when his fellow countryman Johannes Regiomontanus passed away, Copernicus revived the science of heavenly motions for his students."
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  3. Erna Hilfstein: Starowolski's biographies of Copernicus, Volume 21 of Studia Copernicana. The Polish Academy of Sciences Press, 1980, ISBN 8304003368, 9788304003361 p. 10, 15, quoted by J. L. Heilbron: The sun in the church: cathedrals as solar observatories, Harvard University Press, 2001, ISBN 0674005368, 9780674005365 p. 7