Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Contents
- Plate I THE STATUE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL
- Plate II NEWTON
- Plate III FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY
- Plate IV FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY, British Museum
- Plate V BACON
- Plate VI JOHN RAY
- Plate VII JOHN RAY, British Museum
- Plate VIII BARROW
- Plate IX BARROW
- Plate X BENTLEY
- Plate XI BENTLEY
- Plate XII PLASTER CAST OF THE BUST OF BENTLEY, Lambeth Palace
- Plate XIII LORD TREVOR
- Plate XIV LORD WHITWORTH
- Plate XV SIR EDWARD COKE
- Plate XVI SIR ROBERT COTTON
- Plate XVII TERRACOTTA MODEL FOR THE BUST OF COTTON AT TRINITY, British Museum
- Plate XVIII MONUMENT OF DANIEL LOCK, F.R.S., IN THE ANTECHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XIX MONUMENT OF FRANCIS HOOPER, S.T.P., BY ROUBILIAC'S PUPIL, NICHOLAS READ, IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XX THE DEATH-MASK OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- NOTE ON PLATE XVIII
Plate I - THE STATUE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Contents
- Plate I THE STATUE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL
- Plate II NEWTON
- Plate III FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY
- Plate IV FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY, British Museum
- Plate V BACON
- Plate VI JOHN RAY
- Plate VII JOHN RAY, British Museum
- Plate VIII BARROW
- Plate IX BARROW
- Plate X BENTLEY
- Plate XI BENTLEY
- Plate XII PLASTER CAST OF THE BUST OF BENTLEY, Lambeth Palace
- Plate XIII LORD TREVOR
- Plate XIV LORD WHITWORTH
- Plate XV SIR EDWARD COKE
- Plate XVI SIR ROBERT COTTON
- Plate XVII TERRACOTTA MODEL FOR THE BUST OF COTTON AT TRINITY, British Museum
- Plate XVIII MONUMENT OF DANIEL LOCK, F.R.S., IN THE ANTECHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XIX MONUMENT OF FRANCIS HOOPER, S.T.P., BY ROUBILIAC'S PUPIL, NICHOLAS READ, IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XX THE DEATH-MASK OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- NOTE ON PLATE XVIII
Summary
Inscription: newton. qui genus humanum ingenio superavit. Posuit Robertus Smith S.T.P. Collegii hujus S. Trinitatis Magister. MDCCLV.
Signature: l. f. roubiliacinvit et scit.
“The noblest, I think, of all our English statues”.
–chantreyrobert smith, d.d. (1689–1768),
Black Smith of Trinity; on Christian ground
For faith in mysteries none more renowned,
as the poet Churchill termed the donor, was an extremely able and learned man, Bentley's right hand in his struggles with the College, and his worthy successor. As a young man, he was particularly interested in astronomy, and as Plumian Professor constructed the Observatory over the great gate of Trinity. He held the Professorship from 1718–1760, in succession to his cousin Roger Cotes, and his many benefactions to the College fully entitled him to the honour of Scheemakers' bust in the Library already referred to, with its inscription Praesenti tibi maturos largimur honores. Many further particulars of his life will be found in the Dictionary of National Biography, but though his gift of Cotes's bust as well as of that learned man's monument is duly recorded, his incomparably greater gift, the statue of Newton, is not mentioned.
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- Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College Cambridge , pp. 3 - 4Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1924