Figure des Tourbillons Celestes

Adler Planetarium
Chicago, United States

Depicts imagined whirlpools of Descartes with two comets. From Bion's "L'usage des Globes céleste et terrestre et des spheres..." Paris: 1744 and 1751.

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Title: Figure des Tourbillons Celestes
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Medium: paper

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