Nicolas Copernic. Dedie a Monsieur De Sartine...
Dessine et Grave par N. Dandeleau. Se Vend a Paris Chez Mr. Fallery Horloger... Et Chez l'Auteur Rue du Four, pres de la Croix Rouge, Chez un Boulanger No.73 [n.d., c.1790]. Very rare engraving. 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Some time staining. Oval bust portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543), mathematician and the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology. By Nicolas Dandeleau (b.1749); from the portrait which is part of the collection held in the Museum of Thorn, Poland. Not in Wellcome.
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