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112 Copernicium
- Description: Recently discovered chemical element from the transition metal group. The proposed name for Element 112 is 'copernicium' (symbol Cp), named after Nicolaus Copernicus
Bookmark
- Technique: Plastic print on white felt
- Date: 20th century
- Description: A bookmark with the Warsaw monument of Copernicus
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Bookmark
- Date: 20th century
- Description: Bookmark with an image of the Toruń statue of Copernicus displaying the name of TORAL Electromechanics Company
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Box
- Technique: wood
- Date: 20th century
- Description: Wooden box 'Mikołaj Kopernik ur. 1473' (Nicolaus Copernicus born in 1473) displaying Copernicus bust based on the so-called Toruń portrait
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Bust of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Date: 20th century
- Description: Souvenir available in retail outlets
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Bust of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Creator: Bogdan Przybyliński
- Technique: patinated plaster
- Date: 20th century
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Cigarette case, 20th century
- Date: 20th century
- Description: A wooden cigarette case from the interwar period featuring the monument of Copernicus in Toruń
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Coffer featuring Copernicus’ head
- Creator: Spółdzielnia 'Plastyka' w Warszawie
- Technique: clay, sculpted and fired
- Date: 1966
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Commemorative badge
- Technique: metal, paper, plastic
- Date: after 1990
- Description: Commemorative badge with a contemporary image of Copernicus distributed in Toruń
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Commemorative badge
- Technique: paper, plastic, metal
- Date: 1973
- Description: Commemorative badge made on the occasion of the International Year of Copernicus
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Copernicia
- Description: Genus of palms trees from the family of Arecaceae native of Cuba and South America named after Copernicus
Copernicus bas-relief
- Creator: Zofia Sikora-Grębecka
- Technique: painted wood
- Date: 1973
- Description: Souvenir available in shops run by ‘Cepelia’, then a leading chain of souvenir shops selling arts and handicrafts
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Copernicus cigars
- Technique: wood, coloured paper
- Date: 1953
- Description: Cigar box Copernicus produced by the Polish Tobacco Monopoly
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Copernicus competition
- Date: 1973
- Description: Board game
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Copernicus crater on the Moon
- Date: 1972
- Description: One of the largest lunar craters was named after Copernicus. It has a 90km-diameter floor visible from the earth using binoculars
- Location: NASA
Copernicus mini calculator
- Date: 1953
- Description: A simple calculation device made in Poland. It was used to perform such basic mathematical calculations as adding and subtracting
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Copernicus optical CAT scanner
- Creator: OPTOPOL Technology
- Date: 2009
- Description: The SOCT (Spectral Optical Coherence Tomography) Copernicus instrument produced by OPTOPOL Technology. The SOCT prototype of this apparatus was constructed by the Nicolaus Copericus University Medical Physics Research Team in Toruń
- Location: OPTOPOL Technology
Copernicus satellite
- Date: 1972
- Description: The Copernicus satellite equipped with an ultraviolet telescope and an X-ray detector was launched into the earth’s orbit on 21 August 1972. Its mission ended in February 1981
- Location: NASA
Copernicus’ aircraft nameplate
- Technique: impressed leather
- Date: 1973
- Description: Commemorative tag Nicolaus Copernicus – IL 62, impressed leather – distributed among passengers on the first flights of the Nicolaus Copernicus aeroplane flying from Warsaw to New York in 1973, made to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Copernicus’ birth
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Cup coaster
- Date: 20th century
- Description: Beverage coaster with the image of Copernicus and the inscription 'I have the stars all in one place – Nicolaus Copernicus'
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń

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