Original sentence: He was educated at Kraków, Bologna, Padua and Ferrara, and spent most of his working life within the prince-bishopric of Warmia (Ermeland), in the town of Frombork (Frauenburg), where he died in 1543.Kingdom of Poland in the province Royal Prussia.Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn).While the heliocentric theory had been formulated by Greek, Indian and Muslim savants centuries before Copernicus, his reiteration that the sun — rather than the Earth — is at the center of the solar system is considered among the most important landmarks in the history of western science
Edited sentence: Declaring Prussia a component of the Polish state since 1454 reflects widespread Polish POV, which is misleading.He was educated at Kraków, Bologna, Padua and Ferrara, and spent most of his working life within the prince-bishopric of Warmia (Ermeland), in the town of Frauenburg (now Frombork), where he died in 1543.Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473 in the city of Thorn, (now Toruń Poland) in the province Royal Prussia.Only the king's person itself was Schirmherr protector of independend autonomous Prussian provinces (not integral parts of Poland), but with its own seperate German-language self-government, administration, military services.Poland was not a state, but a kingdom, where the crown was held by various none-Polish European royal houses.While the heliocentric theory had been formulated by Greek, Indian and Muslim people of knowledge centuries before Copernicus, his reiteration that the sun — rather than the Earth — is at the center of the solar system is considered among the most important landmarks in the history of western science