NCT Archives Letters Written by Copernicus

Copernicus to Canon Felix Reich

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Frombork, 8 April [1526]

Original: lost (until 1945 in Staatsarchiv Konigsberg, sign. Schrank 5, Fach 22, nr 28); photocopy: Ermlandhaus Münster, Nachlass von Hans Schmauch.

Nicholas Copernicus explains to Felix Reich, Canon of Varmia some of the unclear details of his proposal for reform of Prussian currency. He regrets that the debates raised by the Prussian Estates on the subject of taxes for the King of Poland, Sigismund I, delays the matter of the reform of currency, which is harmful for all.

Further reading

1. Biskup M., Regesta Copernicana (Wrocław, 1973).
2. Nicholas Copernicus Minor Works (Warsaw-Cracow, 1985).