M0000134: Galileo Galilei discovering the earth's rotation.

Date:
19 July 1929
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/3/10
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Credit

M0000134: Galileo Galilei discovering the earth's rotation. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Galileo Galilei discovering the earth's rotation.

Description

Oil painting by Ernest Board depicting Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer and physicist, discovering the earth's rotation. The painting is possibly one of several commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome for the Wellcome Gallery of Portraits in 1912.

Publication/Creation

19 July 1929

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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