A scholar in a loose robe leans from his desk to touch a celestial globe, lit by a leaded window. The globe is by Jodocus Hondius and the open book is Adriaan Metius's handbook of astronomy. Vermeer painted a companion, The Geographer, apparently of the same man in the same room; the model may be the Delft scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
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The picture on the back wall shows the Finding of Moses, a figure associated with learning. There is no telescope in the room.
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