Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18012

    Portrait of William Leybourn

    Date
    1690
    Creator
    Robert White (1645 - 1703, British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    48603
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 290mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of William Leybourn, his body facing right [as viewed], looking out at the viewer. He wears a dark gown and cap and is framed by a scrolled, decorative border.

    Inscribed below: ‘EFFIGIES GUILIELMI LEYBOURN
    Anno - Salutis 1690 AEtatis 64 Oct.r 18
    R White ad vivum delin: et Sculp sit’

    Frontispiece from Leybourn’s Dialling: plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive…(Black Swan, Pater-Noster-Row, 1690)

    William Leybourn (1626-1716) British mathematician and land surveyor was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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