Richard Lovett (1692-1780),British physicist. Lovett is here consulting his book 'Philosophical Essays in Three Parts' (1766). Lovett also wrote a brief theory of the north magnetic pole,and the mariner's compass needle. The piece of paper at lower right shows compass points and the parallel of the latitude of Greenwich,with a globe at bottom right and an apparatus on the table. Lovett is shown here in his clerical collar,and was a lay clerk of Cathedral Church of Worcester. This mezzotint is by the English artist Robert Hancock (1730-1817),after an original work by English artist Joseph Wright (1734-1797) | |
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