Astronomy: Galileo, after using the telescope on the bell-tower of St Mark's Square, Venice, demonstrates his findings to the Doge, 1609. Engraving by J. P. Le Bas after himself, 1739.
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Previous title, replaced April 2023 : Astronomy: a gathering of people around an astronomical chart. Engraving by J. P. Le Bas.
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Galileo Galilei demonstrated the telescope to the Doge Leonardo Donà on the Campanile di San Marco on 21 August 1609
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[Paris] : [Veuve Estienne], [1739]
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1 print : engraving
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La lunette de Hollande apliquée à l'astronomie en 1609. ; Le Bas
References note
Noël Antoine, Le spectacle de la nature ... tome quatrième, Paris 1739, p. 581
Yves Sjöberg and Françoise Gardey, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle. tome 13, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1974, pp. 277, Le Bas no. 537 ("Tome IV (1739) 537. Frontispice. La lunette de Hollande apliquée à l'astronomie en 1609. Voyez l'explication fin du Tome IV. Sous le tr. c. à dr. : 'Dessiné et gravé par J. P. Le Bas.' En h. à dr. : 'Frontispice du IVe tome.' H. 0 m 122 x L. 0 m 080.")
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Wellcome Collection 46321i
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