CHRISTOPHORUS CLAVIUS
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content: Christopher Clavius (1538-1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who spent most of his adult life in Rome, opposing the Copernican model of the solar system and promoting the Gregorian reform of the calendar.
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content: This portrait shows Clavius with a pair of dividers in his right hand, an armillary sphere on the table beside him, and a horary quadrant and astrolabe on the wall behind. It appeared in Isaac Bullart, <i>Académie des Sciences et des Arts, Contenant les Vies, & les Eloges Historiques des Hommes Illustres</i> (Amsterdam, 1682), vol. 2, p. 117. It is copied from an image done in 1609 by Francisco Villamena, a leading engraver in Rome who specialized in portraits filled with realistic still-life details. The signature at bottom reads “E. de Boulonois fecit.”
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content: Ref: Franca Trincieri Camez, “The Roman ‘Studio’ of Francisco Villamena,” <i>The Burlington Magazine</i> 136 (1994): 506-516.
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content: James M. Lattis, <i>Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christopher Clavius and the Collapse of the Ptolemaic Astronomy</i> (Chicago, 1994).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319386
label: catalog number
content: 319386
label: accession number
content: 236658
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 13.97 cm