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A map of the world according to Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) and published in his Rudolphine Tables in 1627. (web.archive.org)

A 1665 map drawn by Johannes Vingboons of the island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. The island was a Portuguese colony from c. 1486 to 1975. (National Archives of the Netherlands)

A 1673 print showing Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), the Polish astronomer, and his wife Elisabeth examining the stars using a sextant. From Hevelius's Machinae Coelestis: Pars Prior, (1673), fig. M, facing p. 222.

A print showing one of the astronomical telescopes built by Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) in Danzig in the 1640s. Helevius used such devices to map the surface of the Moon. (Harvard University)

Depiction by Johannes Gehrts of the Norse goddess Freyja, here seen with her cat-drawn carriage and wearing the necklace Brísingamen.

The Town of Colombo, copper engraving, from a Dutch book, Reistogt naar en door Oostindien, Amsterdam, c. 1775, after an original engraving by Johannes Kip c. 1680.

On 9 July 1776, American Patriots and Sons of Liberty pull down the statue of King George III of Great Britain in New York City, shortly after George Washington read the United States Declaration of Independence. Two months later, the British...

A modern statue of the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) in Linz, Austria.

Map of East Frisia by the Dutch Johannes Florianus (1522-1585) for the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, one of the first accurate modern atlas, 1595.

A map of the Moon's surface drawn in 1647 by Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), the Polish astronomer. (Bodleian Library, Oxford)