Simon Marius [Mayr]. Woodcut.

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6203i
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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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1 print : woodcut

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Simon Marius insignis et mathematicus et astrologus. Astrologum pietas si quem facit, & bonus usus / Artis, jam dudum est astrologus Marius / Nec magus hic Simon, qualis damnatur in Astis [i.e. Actis] / Simoni, Simon, sed pius ille magnus. M. Christ. Reich.

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1919.2

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Wellcome Collection 6203i

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