Geometer

Maleri af William Blake, der fremstiller Newton som guddommelig geometer (1795).

En geometer (eller (mindre korrekt) geometriker) er en videnskabsmand der beskæftiger sig med geometri. Betegnelsen bruges hovedsagelig om historiske forhold, sjældnere om en nulevende person.

I en mere bogstavelig betydning af ordet, bruges geometer også om en landmåler.

Medier brugt på denne side

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William Blake's Newton (1795), colour print with pen & ink and watercolour.

Blake's picture of Newton as a divine geometer was one of a series he created while living in Lambeth in the late 1790s.

Blake's printing appears to have been a form of self-developed monoprint which he then finished with additions in pen and ink coupled with watercolour washes.