Hoet, Gerard (the elder), 1692
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Maker: Hoet, Gerard (the elder)

Year: 1692

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Collection: Luyts, Astronomica institutio

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Volker R. Remmert, Picturing the Scientific Revolution (Saint Joseph's University Press, 2011), p. 192.

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Various astronomical figures cluster around Ptolemy. Galileo (far left) holds a refracting telescope. Beside him a figure (Huygens?) holds the end of a refracting telescope on a mount pointed at the moon.

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