Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 – Vintage Print
![Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/47/472843c28d2e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
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Few figures from the early 1600s are as instantly recognizable as Galileo Galilei, the Pisan-born mathematician and astronomer whose life spanned 1564 to 1642. He is best known for turning a telescope toward the heavens and reporting that Jupiter had moons of its own and that the Moon's surface was rugged rather than smooth, observations that strained the Aristotelian view of a perfect cosmos. His support for the Copernican idea that the Earth moves around the Sun brought him into conflict with the Church, and he spent his final years under house arrest near Florence. This lithograph is an unverified print, so its exact date and maker are uncertain, but it likely reflects the enduring image of a man who helped reshape how people understood the sky.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph?. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,218 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142513 |
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