Subtract 30 years, and the likeness Zajdel created bears a strong resemblance to the surviving portraits of a middle-aged Copernicus, all based on a much copied self-portrait that has been lost.

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system ...

In the first Latin edition of the Dialogo, the portrait has been reengraved and significantly ... The astronomers’ poses are similar to the original, but Copernicus looks out toward the reader and ...