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Letter from Sir Issac Newton to William Briggs, 20th June 1682.Artist: Isaac Newton

Letter from Sir Issac Newton to William Briggs, 20th June 1682. Letter written from Trinity College, Cambridge by Newton to William Briggs, MD, commending his New Theory of Vision but dissenting from some of his conclusions. The New Theory of Vision was published in Robert Hooke's Philisophical Collections, No 6, 1682., and a Latin version, made by Newton's advice and accompanied by a commendatory letter from him to the author, appeared in 1685. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899)

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Nefertiti

Bust of Nefertiti (C.1370 BC C.1330 BC), chief consort of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. The original from Tell el Amarna, attributed to the sculptor Thutmose, is in Berlin's Neues Museum. The bust is one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt; both the British Museum, London, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford have copies. Date: 14th Century B.C

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Ancient Greek ornamental architecture and sculpture, (1898). Creator: Unknown

Ancient Greek ornamental architecture and sculpture, (1898). Fig. I. Doric capital from Paestum (with painted ornaments). Fig 2: Jonic [Ionic] capital from the Erechtheium [Erechtheion] on the Acropolis of Athens. Fig 3: Corinthian capital from the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates at Athens. Fig 4: Caryatide from the Erechtheium. Figs 5 and 6: Acroteria from stelae (sepulchral columns), Paris. Figs 7-9: Anthemia-decorations. Figs 10 and 11: Griffins. Fragments of freezes. Figs 12 and 13. Legs of marble-tables in the National Museum at Naples. Figs 15 and 16: Legs of marble-tables in the National Museum in the British Museum at London'. Plate 4 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

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