Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1353

    Statue of Galileo Galilei

    Date
    c.1850
    Sitter
    Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642, Italian) , Astronomer
    Creator
    Tom Santoni, Engraver
    After
    Paolo Emilio Demi (1798, Italian) , Sculptor
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 185mm
    Subject
    Description
    Engraving after a full-length statue of Galileo Galilei at the University of Pisa. Galileo is shown seated holding a sphere and a diagram of the heliocentric model of the solar system. He is wearing long robes and gestures with his hands as if delivering a lecture on his astronomical observations.

    Inscribed below: ‘Demi Scol./Tom Santoni inc/GALILEO GALILEI/Nato in Pisa il 19 Febbraio 1564.’

    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer and physicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Object history
    From the collection of Sir Edward Sabine FRS
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