A portrait of scientist Isaac Newton, who developed a toad vomit–based cure for the bubonic plague Godfrey Kneller via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. If someone told ...

But it’s a 19 th-century Newton who’s been dusted off here: Sir Isaac, powdered and bewigged, the genius of rationality and order, who created—and who came to personify—modern science ...

When it first came to light at a Christie’s auction in the 1960s, it was ironically labeled as a portrait of Isaac Newton. Sotheby’s, the last public auctioneer of the work in 2006, has not ...

By June 1665, the plague was burning through England. A young University of Cambridge student, Isaac Newton, ... One of his first acts was having the only portrait of Hooke destroyed.

Newton replied that it was because “[the Sun] concerned us more” and, as Conduitt described, “laughing added he had said enough for people to know his meaning.” (Sure it was, Isaac.) 14 ...

He was a contemporary and bitter enemy of Sir Isaac Newton and no portrait from the time exists of him because Newton's supporters destroyed the only one after his death. A series of modern portraits ...