The Ghost of Galileo

by J. L. Heilbron

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  Figure 2 National Trust Photographic Library/Derrick E. Witty/Bridgeman Images.

  Figure 3 Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology.

  Figure 4 Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology.

  Figure 5 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

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  Figure 7 The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (L.P. 85).

  Figure 8 Bavarian State Library/Internet Archive.

  Figure 9 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund. Photo: David Stover/© Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

  Figure 10 Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Peter Horree/Alamy Stock Photo.

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  Figure 12 Private collection. Photo © Philip Mould Ltd, London/Bridgeman Images.

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  Figure 16 Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire. National Trust Photographic Library/Bridgeman Images.

  Figure 17 The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (4° W 9 (3) Art, p. 55).

  Figure 18 The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

  Figure 19 The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

  Figure 20 Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2019. Bridgeman Images.

  Figure 21 The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees/Bridgeman Images.

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  Figure 28 University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection.

  Figure 29 John Bankes horoscope, cast gratis by J. L
. Heilbron.

  Figure 30 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943.

  Figure 31 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

  Figure 32 National Gallery, Prague.

  Figure 33 National Gallery of Denmark.

  Figure 34 The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle. Photo: Lennart Larsen.

  Figure 35 National Gallery of Denmark.

  Figure 36 National Gallery of Denmark.

  Figure 37 The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle. Photo: Lennart Larsen.

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  Figure 48 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

  Figure 49 The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Douce A 304, opp. p. 35).

  Figure 50 University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection.

  Figure 51 Photo © Tate.

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  Figure 53 His Grace The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle/Bridgeman Images.

  Figure 54 Getty Center, Los Angeles. Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program.

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  Figure 57 The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Vet. A3 b.24, p. 160).

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