File:Antoine Caron Astronomers Studying an Eclipse.jpg

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Summary

Artist



Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	1521	1599
Location of birth/death	Beauvais	Fontainebleau
Work location	Fontainebleau, Paris
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

English: Astronomers Studying an Eclipse

Description

The original title is not known; alternate titles include "Astronomers watching a solar eclipse" and "Astronomers (or Astrologers) Studying an Eclipse."

Date

1571

Medium

oil on panel

Notes

References:

Kerr Reaves, Mary; Reaves, Gibson. "Antoine Caron's Painting "Astronomers Studying an Eclipse"," Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 77, No. 456, p.153 (1965)
Aston, Margaret. "The Fiery Trigon Conjunction: An Elizabethan Astrological Prediction," Isis, Vol. 61, No. 2. (Summer, 1970), pp. 158-187.

Source/Photographer

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Solar eclipse

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