Maker: Curti, Francesco

Year: 1651

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Collection: Riccioli, Giovanni Battista, Almagestum novum

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Inga Elmqvist Soderlund, Taking Possession of Astronomy: Frontispieces and Illustrated Title Pages in 17th-Century Books on Astronomy (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2010), p. 184. Held at the Library of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm University Library.

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Figure on the left (embodying knowledge?) gestures upward with his right hand. The other hand grips a large refracting telescope through which the rays of the sun are passing.

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