Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Artist: Jacobus Houbraken

Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Artist: Jacobus Houbraken

1-150-156 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Newton's discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought. His theories of gravity and his three laws of motion were outlined in his greatest work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, (1687) and he is credited with discovering differential calculus. Knighted by Queen Anne in 1705, Newton is buried in Westminster Abbey, London.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Jacobus Houbraken, attributed to: Dutch: Artist, draughtsman, printmaker
After
  1. Sir Godfrey Kneller: British, German: Artist, painter
Subject
  1. Isaac Newton: British; English: Physicist, mathematician
People Related
  1. Queen Anne: British: Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

Medium
  1. Engraving

Picture Type
  1. Portrait

Category Hierarchy

Science & Nature Technology & Innovation

People Famous People

Artistic Representations Portraits


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 2127x3177
File Size : 19,798kb


Aliases

  1. PER/B600141
  1. 0460000975
  1. 1-150-156
  1. 1150156
  1. 975
  1. PER/B600141

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