Microscopic view of silk and taffeta Product:Fine art poster Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) American mathematician

Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) American mathematician was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818

In front of her is the reference to the forthcoming General Election of 1880

he had been dubbed the 'Grand Old Man' by Henry Labouchere in 1881

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Microscopic view of silk and taffeta Product:Fine art poster Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) American mathematicianIllustrations showing microscopic views of: fine waled silk, or taffeta (Fig. 1); watered silk (Fig. 2); the bending of individual silk threads (Figs. 3 and 4). Schem. III from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665