Reserved knowledge (allegory on science), James Barry, 1795 print An archangel explains the solar system to a group of scientists. From left to right in the upper zone are the physicists: Francis Bacon, Nicolaas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. In the lower zone from left to right, the philosophers of Thales van Milete and René Descartes, the mathematical Archimedes, the theologian Robert Grosseteste and the Franciscan and natural scientist Roger Bacon. In the middle of the group there is a celestial slobe with the planet Jupiter. paper etching / engraving

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