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1689 Sir Isaac Newton portrait young

Sir Isaac Newton ( 4 January 1643 -31 March 1727). English physicist and mathematician. 18th Century Mezzotint portrait after the painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller 1689, with later colouring. It shows Newton in his prime and is the earliest of the portraits. Newton is famous for his laws of motion and gravitation and remains one of the greatest scientists of all time. His opus magnus was his "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica". Other pursuits included optical physics, alchemy, religious and occult investigation, and preventing forgery while superintendant of the Royal Mint. He was widely viewed as an eccentric genius, but his human remains indicated mercury poisoning from his alchemy may have contributed to his instability. This version retains yellow age toning of original and is in the possession of the photographer

© PAUL D STEWART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Ludwig van Beethoven - studied from the death mask i.e. life

Ludwig van Beethoven - studied from the death mask i.e. life mask. Photograph of bust statue by Hugo Hagen, based on life mask by Franz Klein done in 1812. (Source: Identified as based on life mask by ME Whitehurst, 2010). Date c1892. Date

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10592640

Beethoven, Composer, Death, Life, Ludwig, Mask, Music, Studied, Van

John Knox's Monument (1840 engraving)

"John Knox's Monument - an engraving from 1840 in 'The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction'. John Knox (c1514-1572) was a 16th century Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland. The monument, within Glasgow Necropolis, was placed on a column at the top of a hill in 1825 by public subscription."

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