The predicted stable dry weather was not to be. At 6:30 it started raining again for more than an hour. Packing the tent wet....
The water tram to Frombork was packed. I hadn't managed to book online, but luckily I was still allowed on, albeit without a seat.
Copernicus
In Frombork, I first visited the Copernicus museum next to the cathedral, in the former bishop's palace.
A beautiful presentation that illustrated the life and era of Copernicus.
He was born in Torún and went to school there. He then moved to Krakow, which was the capital at the time. He specialised further in law and medicine in Italy, including Bologna and Padua.
From 1510 until his death in 1543, he stayed in Frombork. In 1519, he helped fight the plague there as a physician.
He was also an economist. He coined the 'law of bad money', which stated that bad coins gradually replace fine coins, as the fine coins are collected for speculative reasons and sometimes even melted down.
Between 1514-33, he wrote his best-known work, The Revolutionibus, which ended up on the blacklist of banned books. It was published in 1543, the year of Copernicus' death.
Walking around in a context where once such a well-known figure also hung out always gives me a strange feeling. Copernicus literally caused a major upheaval of the ecclesiastical worldview with his heliocentrism.
