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EarlierCopernicus De Revolutionibus Published1543 AD
LaterNewton's Principia Presented to the Royal Society1687 AD
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it acquired its present title towards the end of the 20th century.

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