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Johannes Kepler
1630 - Regensburg
In a hired room with unpaid wages and fever returning, the astronomer who mapped the heavens reflects on the distance between truth and recognition.
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Galileo Galilei
1638 - Arcetri
Nearly blind and confined at Arcetri, the father of modern science writes what the Inquisition forbade him from saying aloud.
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Rembrandt
1669 - Amsterdam
I am sixty-three years old.
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Johannes Vermeer
1675 - Delft
I have not lost the work.
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Louis XIV
1715 - Versailles
Ritual, bodily decline, and the separation of image from control.
Feeling control leave his body at Versailles, the Sun King writes what absolute power actually felt like from the inside.
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Regensburg
Alive in this timeline around 1630 / story span 17th century
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Arcetri, near Florence
Alive in this timeline around 1638 / story span 1638
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Johannes Kepler
1630 - Regensburg
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In a hired room with unpaid wages and fever returning, the astronomer who mapped the heavens reflects on the distance between truth and recognition.
- 1638
