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Phillipus Lansbergius Gandavensis Aetatis Suae Anno LXVII.
Phillipus Lansbergius Gandavensis Aetatis Suae Anno LXVII. Sidera qui tersis, totumg relinquit Olmpum Monstrator aetheris novi, Iam pridem coeli vetus incola, corporis aegzi Pertaesus, et nostri satur, Umbzam animi, coelog oculos quos fixit, amicus. Sic consecrat Lansbergius. D. Heinsius.
Z. Roman exc. W Delff sculpsit.
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Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
An oval head and shoulders portrait of Johan Philip Lansberge. With latin script by Daniel Heinsius (1580 –1655). Johan Philip Lansberge (1561 –1632) was a Dutch Calvinist Minister, astronomer and Mathematician. His name is sometimes written Lansberg, and his first name is sometimes given as Philip or Johannes Philippus. He published under the Latin name Philippus Lansbergius. He is best known as the author of a set of astronomical tables, Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuæ, for predicting planetary positions
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1683.1
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