Simon Marius [Mayr]. Woodcut.

Date:
1614
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6202i
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Above left, Jupiter encircled by four moons, here celebrated by Marius as his own discovery ("Inventum proprium est"), against the claims of Galileo, and discovered with the aid of the telescope ("ope perspicilli"), which is shown on the table, left, labelled "perspicillum"

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1614

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Simon Marius Guntzenh. mathematicus et medicus anno MDCXIV aetatis XLII. Inventum proprium est: mundus iovialis et orbis / terrae secretum nobile, dante Deo.

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R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1919.1

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Wellcome Collection 6202i

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