Maclaurin.
Page sculp.
London Pubd. as the Act directs, Nov.r 1.st 1814 by G. Jones.
Stipple. Plate 165 x 114mm. 6½ x 4½".
Portrait of Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) in an oval border with a small rectangle below of a woman with two globes, telescope, map, books, and poster with mathematic symbols. Maclaurin (1698-1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. His essay on the 'Percussion of Bodies', won him the prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1724.
Wellcome 1856-3
[Ref: 25187] £45.00
London Pubd. as the Act directs, Nov.r 1.st 1814 by G. Jones.
Stipple. Plate 165 x 114mm. 6½ x 4½".
Portrait of Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) in an oval border with a small rectangle below of a woman with two globes, telescope, map, books, and poster with mathematic symbols. Maclaurin (1698-1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. His essay on the 'Percussion of Bodies', won him the prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1724.
Wellcome 1856-3
[Ref: 25187] £45.00