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File:E pur si muove.jpg

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Galileo in prison   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author

unknown. One of its former owners had attributed it to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, but recent investigations have cast doubt on that attribution.[1]

  1. ↑ Livio, Mario (May 6, 2020) , Did Galileo Truly Say, ‘And Yet It Moves’? A Modern Detective Story
Title
Galileo in prison
label QS:Len,"Galileo in prison"
label QS:Lfr,"Galilée en prison"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Galileo is depicted as holding a nail and gazing at diagrams he has scratched on the wall of his prison cell. The words "E pur si muove" (only partially legible in this image) appear on the wall below a diagram of the Earth orbiting the Sun.
Date 19th century (estimated)
Medium painting
Source/Photographer Campo & Campo auction house
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Galileo Galilei depicted in a prison cell where the words "Eppur si muove" are scratched on a wall.

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current05:44, 6 April 2021Thumbnail for version as of 05:44, 6 April 20211,500 × 1,780 (753 KB)Freda NurkVersion in colour with better detail
11:21, 14 May 2015Thumbnail for version as of 11:21, 14 May 20155,738 × 6,764 (9.89 MB)David J Wilson{{Information |Description= |Source= Scan by uploader of plate XIV in ''Memorials of Galileo (1564–1642)'', 1929, by J.J. Fahie |Date= 1643 or 1645 |Author= Attributed to Esteban Bartolomeo Murillo |Permission= {{PD-art}} |other_versions= }}
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