Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, oil on canvas by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653; in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Geoffrey Clements/CorbisAristotle, painting by Justus of Ghent and Pedro Berruguete, 15th century; in the Louvre Museum, Paris. 104 × 68 cm.
© Photos.com/JupiterimagesFrontispiece to Galileo’s Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano (1632; Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican). From left to right are Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus. Ptolemy holds an astrolabe, Copernicus a model of a planet orbiting the Sun.
Courtesy of the Joseph Regenstein Library, The University of ChicagoRepresentation of the Christian Aristotelian cosmos, engraving from Peter Apian’s Cosmographia (1524).
Courtesy of the Newberry Library, ChicagoAristotle, French coloured engraving, 1584.
The Granger Collection, New YorkAristotle, marble portrait bust, Roman copy (2nd century bc) of a Greek original (c. 325 bc); in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
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