Slovakia Rahvusgalerii, Bratislava, Slovakia; Sofia City Gallery, Bulgaaria; Varna Archeological Museum, Bulgaaria; Mini Triennal - Continents, Jelenia Góra Art Gallery BWA, Poola; Prize Winners of MTG´97, Czestochowa City Art Gallery, Poola; Graphic Constellation ´97, Graz Cultural city Network, Austria; International Triennal ´97 - Cracow - Nürnberg, Nürnberg Fair Centre, Saksamaa; International Triennal ´97 - Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brasiilia; 1998-1999 Triennale of 100 Cities´98, Poola; Lebork Regional Museum; Debica Gallery of the Town Cultural Centre; Sucha Beskidzka Town Cultural centre;
[ aine ] So monumental were his achievements in cosmology, the Scientific Revolution could almost have been called the Copernican Revolution. Born in Poland in 1473, it was the humble astronomer Nicholas Copernicus (14731543) who challenged the geocentrism of Ptolemy with his own heliocentric universe. Ptolemy would never recover neither would the Christian matrix. Copernicus studied mathematics at Cracow and managed to obtain a law degree from Bologna as well. In 1500 he was in Rome where he witnessed a lunar eclipse. The following year he studied medicine at Padua and in 1505 he left Italy for Prussia. By 1512 he was settled in Prussia where he not only observed the movement of the heavenly bodies but also worked in various capacities as a bailiff, military governor, judge, tax collector, physician and reformer of the coinage
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