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The Inspiration of the Sciences

 

 

Triumph of St. Thomas and Allegory of the Sciences
 Andrea da Firenze
Ancient scientists sit in a row with women sitting behind them, perhaps they're some sort of muses. This needs more research. This image is a detail of a larger fresco. In the fresco it looks like priests or saints sit above the scientist, and above them are angels.

 

 

  Newton refracts the light: Rays of light often represent inspiration in art. It these paintings Newton refracts a ray of light. This could be used to illustrate the rational scientific view of inspiration, taking control of it with the mind and studying it.
 

Newton

   Isaac Newton
 

 

 Newton's Solar Spectrum Experiment

      Master Isaac Newton, 1905 
(Newton Thinking)
Robert  Hannah
.bridgeman.co.uk
 

 
Newton Decomposes Light
Guillon in Louis Figuier Vies des Savants Illustres c.1880
Mary Evans Picture Library, Picture No 10059189
 
 

 
Science as Goddess
19th century
Unattributed illustration
Mary Evans Picture Library, Picture No 10110147
 
 

 
Sir William Herschel  
Ken Hodges,  (19th century)
186982