# Copernicus is installed as a Warmia cathedral canon in 1497, a benefice office

Date: 1497

## The fact

In 1497 [Copernicus](/people/nicolaus-copernicus) was installed as a Warmia cathedral canon. The instrument is that benefice, not a university chair and not a unique piety coefficient. Nicolaus Copernicus's documented role is: He took a church income. Uncle Watzenrode arranged it. He did not invent canonries. The office funded the astronomy.

## Context

Watzenrode arranged. Sharing that uncle-patronage is required. Bologna study is the same decade's education row. The setting of Copernicus is installed as a Warmia cathedral canon in 1497, a benefice office is the public file around 1497-10-20. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Copernicus is installed as a Warmia cathedral canon in 1497, a benefice office. Naming Nicolaus Copernicus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1497-10-20 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Nicolaus Copernicus, canonry neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Copernicus, Frombork canon at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Britannica — Nicolaus Copernicus, canonry neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Copernicus, Frombork canon (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Nicolaus Copernicus, canonry neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Copernicus is installed as a Warmia cathedral canon in 1497, a benefice office on 1497-10-20. A dated cathedral benefice is a patronage path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Copernicus is installed as a Warmia cathedral canon in 1497, a benefice office under 1497-10-20 for Nicolaus Copernicus. Established: a sourced public record of Copernicus is installed as a Warmia cathedral canon in 1497, a benefice office under 1497-10-20.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat the canonry as a modern research grant. Multiple benefices are a neighbouring ineq row. Mixed effects of Copernicus is installed as a Warmia cathedral canon in 1497, a benefice office are separate paths.

The attached driver is institutional-corruption. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Nicolaus Copernicus: https://factrail.ai/people/nicolaus-copernicus

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cp-canon-1497