Aristotle and Ptolemy discuss with Copernicus their respective views on the movements of the Sun and the Earth. Engraving, 1663, after S. Della Bella, 1632.
- Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664.
- Date:
- 1663
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- 567720i
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A ship in the background represents one of the arguments for the movement of the Earth: just as the motion of a moving ship need not affect the motion of something moving inside the ship, so the motion of the moving Earth need not affect the motion of something moving on the Earth
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Londini [London] : Prostat vœnalis apud Thomam Dicas, 1663.
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1 print : engraving ; image 14 x 9.5 cm
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Dialogus de systemate mundi. Autore Galilaeo Galilaei Lynceo, serenissimo Ferdinando II Hetrur. magno-duci dicatus. Aristot. Cl. Ptol.m. N. Copernicus.
References note
Alfred Forbes Johnson, A catalogue of engraved and etched English title-pages down to the death of William Faithorne, 1691, London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1934, p. 71, no. 102
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Wellcome Collection 567720i
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