Monument of Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik) in Warsaw (Poland) against a background of Staszic’s Palace, remodeled in the Byzantine style, pre-1908.
„Copernicus, with an unmoving globe in his hand, turned his back on the sun that rose for the day from behind the Karaś house, climbed up over Friends of Science Square, to hide behind the Zamoyski house, as if in defiance of the aphorism: He arrested the sun and moved the earth.”
<i>Bolesław Prus, Lalka [The doll]</i>