Famous astronomers in history, a colorization of a frontispiece engraving from Jan Luyts’s Astronomica Institutio, 1692. The figure at center may be the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, or a figure of Luyts himself. In background are depicted, from left to right: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and Ptolemy (100-c. 170). Frontispiece engraving by J. Mulder after G. Hoet, from Jan Luyts’s Astronomica Institutio, 1692.

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