"Nicolaus Copernicus Tornaeus Borussus Mathematicus." Theodor de Bry et Jean-Jacques Boissard, Icones virorum illustrium doctrina et eruditione praestantium (Francofurti 1598).
↑Thorn, 1480 (Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe: Urkunden, Akten und Nachrichten: Texte und Übersetzungen, ISBN 3-05-003009-7S. 23ff; Marian Biskup: Regesta Copernicana, Ossolineum, 1973, p. 32, etc.
↑"A monument to Copernicus has been erected at Thorn in Prussia, his native place. It bears the inscription drawn up by Baron Humboldt—Nicolaus Copernicus, Torunensis, terrae motor, solis caelique stator, on one side, and on the other, Natus anno 1473, obiit anno 1543."—F. Jefferies (1853), in The Gentleman's Magazine 40: 171.