Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt. Line engraving.

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Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt. Line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Below the portrait, a Latin address to the spectator is engraved on a tablet surrounded by geometrical instruments. The address contains comments on methods of determining longitude used by Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Philippe de La Hire, and on the Paris meridian. In the background, a map of central France between Bourges and Autun

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References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 896.1

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Wellcome Collection 2713i

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