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Margherita Bassi

16th-century compass unearthed in Poland may have belonged to Copernicus

A hand holds a small compass.

Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a 500-year-old compass that may have belonged to Nicolaus Copernicus, who is most famous for his heliocentric model of the solar system, in which the planets orbit the sun.

The 16th-century find was unearthed in a network of underground tunnels beneath the canonical gardens of the town of Frombork, where Copernicus died.

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