WARSAW, August 8A compass thought to be lost by Nicolaus Copernicus has been found 500 years later in a castle in Poland, according to a group of amateur archaeologists called Mission Treasure.
«In the garden where Nicolaus Copernicus made astronomical observations, we found a compass dating back to the early 16th century,» the archaeologists said in a Facebook post*.
The copper alloy compass, immortalized in Jan Matejko's painting «Conversation with God,» was found by amateur archaeologists using ground penetrating radar, which they explored the site of the 14th-century Frombork Castle in the north of the country.
It was there that the astronomer made most of his important astronomical discoveries and refined his heliocentric theory, which holds that the Sun, not the Earth, is at the center of the universe.
Archaeologists sent the compass to experts to study the artifact.
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