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Nicolaus Copernicus
Engraving from Christoph Hartknoch's book
Alt- und neues Preussen
(1684;...
Courtesy of the Joseph Regenstein Library, The University of Chicago
Nicolaus Copernicus: heliocentric system
Engraving of the solar system from Nicolaus Copernicus's
De revolutionibus orbium...
The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Tycho Brahe
Engraving of Tycho Brahe at the mural quadrant, from his book
Astronomiae instauratae...
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1627; in the cathedral of Strasbourg,...
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frontispiece to Galileo's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican
Frontispiece to Galileo's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic...
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton, portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1689.
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Isaac Newton:
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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