List of Illustrations
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1.1 – Colin Cole: Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven’s coat of arms. (Drawing courtesy of Cecil Humphrey-Smith)
1.2 – Eduardo Paolozzi: Statue of Isaac Newton at the British Library
1.3 – John A. Houston: Newton Investigating Light. (Illustrated London News 56, (1870) 589)
1.4 – Joseph Wright of Derby: A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, 1766. (Derby Museums and Art Gallery)
1.5 – Frontispiece of Andrew Motte’s English translation of Newton’s Principia, 1729
1.6 – Frontispiece of Voltaire’s Élémens de la philosophie de Newton, 1738. (Engraved by Jacob Folkema after
Louis-Fabricius Dubourg). (By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
2.1 – Godfrey Kneller: Newton, 1689 (mezzotint engraving by Thomas Oldham Barlow, 1868). (The Wellcome Library, London)
2.2 – Godfrey Kneller: Newton, 1702. (by courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London)
2.3 – John Vanderbank: Newton, 1725 (engraving by George Vertue, 1726). (The Wellcome Library, London)
2.4 – Nineteenth-century engraving based on Godfrey Kneller’s 1720 portrait of Newton
2.5 – William Stukeley: Pen and wash drawing, c. 1720
2.6 – George Bickham: Isaac Newton, 1787 engraving. (The Wellcome Library, London)
2.7 – William Hogarth: A Performance of ‘The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards’, 1732. (Private
collection)
2.8 – Anthony Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson: Entrance into the Choir of Westminster Abbey, coloured aquatint, 1812. (The Wellcome
Library, London)
2.9 – Louis François Roubiliac: Newton’s statue at Trinity College, Cambridge (1755) (stipple engraving by J. Whessell,
1812). (The Wellcome Library, London)
2.10 – Giovanni Battista Pittoni, with Domenico and Giuseppe Valeriani: An Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton, 1727–30
(line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta). (The Wellcome Library, London)
2.11 – Jakob Houbraken after Kneller (1702): Allegorical portrait of Newton. (The Wellcome Library, London)
2.12 – R. Page: Engraving of Kneller’s 1702 portrait for the London Encyclopedia, 1818. (The Wellcome Library,
London)
3.1 – Frontispiece of John Colson’s The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series, 1736. (By permission of the Syndics of
Cambridge University Library)
3.2 – William Hogarth: Frontispiece of John Clubbe’s Physiognomy, 1763. (By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University
Library)
4.1 – William Hogarth: Frontis-Piss, 1763. (British Museum)
5.1 – Newton in Senegal: Jean Delisle des Sales, De la philosophie de la nature (Paris, 1804), vol. 4, p. 205. (By permission of
the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
5.2 – Maurice Quentin de la Tour: Mlle Ferrand méditante sur la philosophie de Newton. (Collection of the Bavarian Hypo- und
Vereinsbank AG, Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
5.3 – Étienne-Louis Boullée: first design for Newton’s cenotaph, 1784. (Bibliothèque nationale de
France)
6.1 – William Blake: Newton. (Tate Gallery, London)
6.2 – Stipple engraving of 1809 by Meadows after George Romney: Newton Making Experiments, 1812. (The Wellcome Library,
London)
6.3 – The Genius of the Times, 1812. (British Museum)
7.1 – John Leech: Discovery of the Laws of Gravitation by Isaac Newton, from Gilbert A’Beckett: The
Comic History of England (London, 1847–8), vol. 2, p. 273. (By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
7.2 – George Cruikshank: Sir Isaac Newton’s Courtship, from Bentley’s Miscellany 4, (1838), facing p. 167. (By
permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
7.3 – Newton as a child, from Tom Telescope, The Newtonian Philosophy (London, 1838), p. 213. (By permission of the Syndics of
Cambridge University Library)
7.4 – The first six statues at the Oxford University – Museum, Illustrated London News, 13 Oct 1869, 339. (By permission of
the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
7.5 – Mizuno Toshikata: Isaac Newton (c. 1900)
7.6 – Engraving by T. L. Atkinson, after Frederick Newenham, 1859: Isaac Newton, at the Age of Twelve. (The Burndy Library, Dibner
Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Grace K. Babson Collection of the works of Sir Isaac Newton)
8.1 – Newton’s three sites of inspiration (1836), from Charles John Smith’s Historical and Literary Curiosities. (By
permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
8.2 – J. C. Barrow: Newton’s Cottage at Woolsthorpe, 1797. (The Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland)
8.3 – William Theed: Grantham Statue of Newton, 1858 (line engraving by C. & E. Layton). (The Wellcome Library, London)