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Title: Photograph of Scheiner's engraving of the solar surface, 1635
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929-03-30
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Photograph of Scheiner's engraving of the solar surface, 1635. The image appears to be from an unidentified book. The title cartouche at top reads "Schema Corporis Solaris. Prout ab Auctore et P. Scheinero. Romae Anno 1635". Perhaps Christoph Scheiner, 1575-1650. The space surrounding the sun is labeled "Aethereum Spatium"; the top is labeled "Polus Borealis"; the center (left) is labeled "Aequator", and the bottom is labeled "Polus Australis".
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 1445
29442
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1521
Subject: Drawings
Sun
Scheiner, Christoph, 1575-1650
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Drawings. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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