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Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive is an extensive image library featuring over 40.000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and many other collections. Founded and mostly photographed by Erich Lessing, the collection covers a wide range of subjects: Fine Arts, Religion, History, Music, Archaeology, Mythology, Architecture, Landscapes, Historical Portraits and Reportage.

 

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Johannes Kepler

22 September 1610

After hearing about Galileo's telescopic discoveries, Kepler also started a theoretical and experimental inverstigation of telescopic optics. The resulting manuscript was completed in September of 1610 and published as Dioptrice in 1611.

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