Isaac Newton laboratory fire

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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English scientist and mathematician. Artist's engraving of apocryphal story of Newton's pet dog knocking over a candle and setting fire to his papers. Sir Isaac Newton had on his table a pile of papers upon which were written calculations that had taken him twenty years to make. One evening, he left the room for a few minutes, and when he came back he found that his little dog "Diamond" had overturned a candle and set fire to the precious papers, of which nothing was left but a heap of ashes. It was then that he cried, "Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!" Story published in The Life of Sir Isaac Newton By David Brewster (1833) and later in St. Nicholas magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, (February 1878)

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Image is a faithful recreation of an engraving created originally more than 100 years ago. Original is in Public Domain, as are all faithful facsimiles per Bridgeman vs. Corel.