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Anonymous, Portrait of Wilhelm Schickart

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Portrait of Wilhelm Schickart, 1632
Tübingen, Bildnissammlung im Senatsaal Universität Tübingen

The successor of Mästlin, Kepler's teacher, in the chair of astronomy at Tübingen, Schickart (1592-1635) is shown holding a small Copernican mechanical planetarium. This is the oldest painted depiction of the Copernican system.