Only 60 years later??? He should know about it, don't you think? It's nearly the same time frame!
And what is the facts you "stubborn" Poles bring all he time to prove his Polishness?
That he made once a political choice against the Teutonic Order, that's all...as if that
says about his ethnic belonging!
What now? I brought alot of facts (his family, the languages he used)...you have???
Where do you see here polish influence at all!
The original autograf, an intermediate between a rough copy and a fair copy, passed after Copernicus' death in 1543 to his friend Tiedemann Giese(1480-1550) and then to Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574), Copernicus only pupil, who had used a copy to publish De revolutionibus in Nuremberg in 1543.
Rheticus took it to Leipzig and Cracow (1554 - 1574) and to Košice (Kaschau) where he died and left it to his pupil and colleague Valentin Otho(1545 - 1603) who took it to Heidelberg were Jakob Christmann (1554-1613) added his remark.
PS: I had family in Jauer! :)
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_Kopernikus
But even this political decision doesn't mean that he is polish. Kopernikus (as his uncle Lukas Watzenrode) were on the side of the Preußischer Bund, who was against the Teutonic Order, it was more of a inner prussian civil war but a war between Germans and Poles!
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3%9Fischer_Bund
He was even elected into several preußische Landtage...
You still think he was a Pole because....?