Vermeer's The Astronomer
1668* · Work
Vermeer painting of a scholar with celestial globe.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, Painting & Sculpture, The Low Countries
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- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
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- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Qing dynasty (1644)