1667 Gallery

Nicolaus Copernicus (14731543) Astronomer. Orbes Celeste

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated an heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center. Orbes Celeste celestial constellations. Arctic and Antarctic. Edition of 1667, France

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John Milton (1608-1674). British poet. Paradise lost. Colore

John Milton (1608-1674). British poet. Paradise Lost. Epic poem in blank verse. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. Colored engraving depicting the encounter of three poets in three different ages born in Greece, Italy and England. Edition printed in London in 1727. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona

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Edward Marq. Worcester

Edward Somerset, second marquess of WORCESTER, with his wife and child Royalist general in the civil war, later renowned for his inventions Date: 1601 - 1667

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