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Nicolaus Copernicus
Engraving from Christoph Hartknoch's book Alt- und neues Preussen (1684;...
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany (9770167160)
Nicolaus Copernicus: heliocentric system
Engraving of the solar system from Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (46031925)
Tycho Brahe
Engraving of Tycho Brahe at the mural quadrant, from his book Astronomiae instauratae...
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frontispiece to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican
Frontispiece to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C (12018406)
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton, portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1689.
Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images
Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Title page from Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica...
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, 1687
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