Reserved knowledge (allegory on science), Reserved knowledge (original title on object), An archangel explains the solar system to a group of scientists. From left to right in the upper zone are depicted the physicists: Francis Bacon, Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. In the lower zone from left to right the philosophers Thales of Miletus and René Descartes, the mathematician Archimedes, the theologian Robert Grosseteste and the Franciscan and natural scientist Roger Bacon are depicted seated. In the center of the group is a celestial globe with the planet Jupiter.

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