Portrait of R. Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo – the Yashar of Candia. Illustration by W. Delff, after W.C. Duyster, from Sefer Eilim by R. Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo. [Amsterdam: Menasseh Ben Israel, 1628-1629].
Caption around the portrait: "Ioseph del Medico Cretensis philosophus et medicus aet. XXXVII. Anno M.D.C.XXVIII".
R. Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo of Crete, known as the Yashar of Candia (1591-1665) was a physician, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, a disciple of Galileo Galilei (mentioned several times in his Sefer Eilim, and granted the honorific of Rabbi – "my teacher").
Approx. 13X18 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Minute tears to margins of engraving. Repaired with paper to verso. Signs of ink at bottom of engraving, slightly affecting artist's name.
