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Nicolaus Sandersonus. A.M. Matheseos Professor Cantabrigiae & R.S.S.

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Physical Attributes
Technique: Mezzotint
Dimensions: 358 x 252 mm

Production
Artist: Vanderbanck J
Engraver: George White
Date: 1719

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Bibliographic References
British Museum: 2006-U-665
NPG: 203959
Chaloner Smith: 41.1

Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) blind Mathematician, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a close friend of Isaac Newton's, who had held the same post at Cambridge. Credited as the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem.




Antique Mezzotint - "Nicolaus Sandersonus. A.M. Matheseos Professor Cantabrigiae & R.S.S." by G White after J Vanderbanck published 1719.