Isaac Collection (page 8)

Sir Isaac Newtons house on the corner of Orange and St Martins Streets, London, c1880. English scientist and mathematician Isaac Newtons (1642-1727)

Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton, 1840. (1642-1727). English scientist and mathematician Isaac Newtons (1642-1727)

Newtons experiment splitting white light into the colours of the spectrum by a prism, 1757
Newtons experiment showing how white light is refracted by a prism and split into the colours of the spectrum, 1757. The dotted line shows the beam of light entering through the window

Optical phenomena observed and described by Sir Isaac Newton, 1704. The formation of a rainbow by dispersion and total internal reflection (Fig 15)

Percussion pendulum, 1725. An experiment to investigate the inertia of bodies using two suspended weights whose movements could be accurately measured

Explanation of principles of physics, 1725. The formation of a rainbow by dispersion and total internal reflection (top), and observing Newtons Rings (circular concentric interference fringes)

Fossil hunting in Cherry Hinton chalk pit, Cambridgeshire, 1822. One of the quarry workers is handing a find, an ammonite perhaps, to a gentleman collector

Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Newtons discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Dish showing the Sacrifice of Isaac, 16th century. Artist: Nessus Painter
Italian dish showing the Sacrifice of Isaac, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 16th century

Buffavento Castle, 11th century
Buffavento Castle in the Kyrennia Mountains. It was defended by Isaac Comneus (Despot of Cyprus 1184-91) against Richard the Lion Heart, 11th century

Detail from a carving on Souillac Abbey, 12th century
Detail from a carving on Souillac Abbey, showing the Sacrifice of Isaac. Note the Angel above Abraham, holding back his hand and bringing a ram, 12th century

Detail of the doors of Paradise showing Abraham and Isaac, 15th century. Artist: Lorenzo Ghiberti
Detail of the doors of Paradise showing Abraham and Isaac, 15th century

The Ram in a Thicket, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC
Detail of the Ram in a Thicket, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC. One of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the Great Death Pit

Mosaic of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac Commenus, 14th century
Mosaic of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac Commenus (c. 1007-1061) from the church of St Saviour in Chora, 14th century

Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Newtons discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Experiment showing that prismatic colours cannot be split further, 1747. From Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy confirm d by Experiment by Jean Theophilus Desaguliers

Isaac Newtons prism experiment showing how sunlight is split into its separate colours, 1747. English physicist and mathematician Newton (1642-1727)

Plate showing diagram of the optics of a reflecting telescope (Fig 29), 1704. English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Isaac being saved from sacrifice, 1557. Isaac being saved from being sacrificed to God by his father Abraham by the appearance of a ram caught in a thicket

Isaac Newtons house, St Martins Street, Leicester Square, London, c1850. English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newtons (1642-1727)

The Sacrifice of Isaac, early 17th century. Artist: Giuseppe Vermiglio
The Sacrifice of Isaac, early 17th century. The Angel of the Lord preventing Abraham from sacrificing his son Isaac

Abrahams Sacrifice, 17th century. Artist: Laurent de la Hyre
Abrahams Sacrifice, 17th century. The Angel of the Lord holds back Abrahams hand before he sacrifices his son Isaac on the order of the Lord

Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Newtons (1642-1727) discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Abraham preparing to sacrifice his son Isaac to God, 18th century
Abraham preparing to sacrifice his son Isaac to God in place of the sacrificial lamb held by a figure in the background, 18th century. Illustration from an Arab manuscript

Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, (1666) 1874. Newton (1642-1727) using a prism to separate white light into the colours of the spectrum

Plate from Opticks, by Isaac Newton, showing the splitting of light through prisms, 1704. English physicist and mathematician Newton (1642-1727)

Isaac Newtons reflecting telescope, 1668. Artist: Isaac Newton
Isaac Newtons reflecting telescope, 1668. Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English scientist and mathematician built the first ever reflecting telescope in 1668

Newton Investigating Light, c1879. English scientist and mathematician Isaac Newtons (1642-1727) discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Title page of Newtons Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1687. English scientist and mathematician Isaac Newtons (1642-1727)

Title page of Opticks by English scientist and mathematician Isaac Newton, 1794. Newtons (1642-1727) discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Street Scene in Winter, 1919-1920. Artist: Isaak Brodsky
Street Scene in Winter, 1919-1920. Found in the collection of the Brodsky Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

Isaac blesses Jacob, early 17th century. Artist: Bernardo Strozzi
Isaac blesses Jacob, early 17th century. From a private collection

The Departure of Abraham and Isaac, 17th century. Artist: Cornelis van Poelenburgh
The Departure of Abraham and Isaac, 17th century. From a private collection

The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, built 685-69. The oldest existing Muslim monument, built 685-691 as a shrine for pilgrims (a mashhad)

Mosaic of Abraham and three angels at the sacrifice of Isaac, 6th century
Mosaic of Abraham and three angels at the sacrifice of Isaac from San Vitale, 6th century

Isaac Barrow (1630-1677), English mathematician and cleric. Barrow became Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1663, a post from which he resigned in 1669 to make way for Isaac Newton

Home-(Rule)-Opathy, 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain
Home-(Rule)-Opathy, 1874. Mr Isaac Butt, the moderate leader of the Irish Home Rule Party opens a box labelled Home Rule. Ireland sits by her small fire with her meagre possessions on a stool beside

Sacrifice of Isaac: an angel presses against the dagger-bearing arm of Abraham, who stands next to Isaac on an altar, God the Father and an angel bearing a lamb approach from the left, ca.1645-50

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