The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)

German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler Authority - early modern
References in Documents:
Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

ANOTHER; being a SLATE about ⅓d of an inch thick, representing, as it were, a plain Field, inclosed with a HEDGE of TREES; some bigger, others less; all so lively, as if it had been the curious and elaborate Work of a Painter; or had been cast through a Glass (as Kepler shews the way sometimes of taking Lanships) upon a Tablet in a Dark Room.