Reserved knowledge (allegory of science)

An archangel explains the solar system to a group of scientists. From left to right in the upper zone are depicted the physicists: Francis Bacon, Nicolaas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. In the lower zone, seated from left to right, are the philosophers Thales of Miletus and René Descartes, the mathematician Archimedes, the theologian Robert Grosseteste and the Franciscan and natural scientist Roger Bacon. In the middle of the group is a celestial globe with the planet Jupiter.