Five Johannes Hevelius works, including Selenographia and Machina coelestis, have been included on the National List of the UNESCO ‘Memory of the World’ Programme.

Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), born in Gdańsk, was a town councillor, a well-educated lawyer and an astronomer.

Host John Beauchamp talks to Maria Michalska from the Polish Academy of Sciences Library in Gdańsk about the works of Johannes Hevelius (Jan Heweliusz) and their entry onto the UNESCO heritage list.

You can find out more about the library’s collection and see Hevelius’ works here.

In this week’s review:

• Poland imposes 10-day quarantine for travellers from outside Schengen Area
• Most Poles plan vacation at home
• Poland knocked out of Euro 2020

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