Their patronage example was followed by ecclesiastic and lay feudal lords, and by patricians in major towns.

Science

Polish science reached its culmination in the first half of the 16th century as the Aristotelian point of view was criticized and more rational explanations were sought. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, published by Nicolaus Copernicus in Nuremberg in 1543, shook up

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