Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . tudiestook strong and immediate hold at Cambridge. TheLucasian Professorship of Mathematics was foundedin 1664, the Plumian of Astronomy in 1707, the Pro-fessorship of Chemistry in 1703, that of Anatomy in1707. Isaac Barrow was the first Lucasian, RogerCotes the first Plumian Professor. Vigani, who wasthe first Chemistry Professor, had begun to teach atCambridge as early as 1683. It was long ere theUniversity recognised the need of classrooms andlaboratories for its Professor
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . tudiestook strong and immediate hold at Cambridge. TheLucasian Professorship of Mathematics was foundedin 1664, the Plumian of Astronomy in 1707, the Pro-fessorship of Chemistry in 1703, that of Anatomy in1707. Isaac Barrow was the first Lucasian, RogerCotes the first Plumian Professor. Vigani, who wasthe first Chemistry Professor, had begun to teach atCambridge as early as 1683. It was long ere theUniversity recognised the need of classrooms andlaboratories for its Professors of Natural found a lumber hole, as Bentley describedit, to serve as a lecture-room for Vigani : and thesame college provided Cambridge with its first ob-servatory. It was constructed, shortly after 1706,over the Great Gate, and remained there until itsdestruction in 1797. In the central space of the antechapel of Trinity,at its western end, stands Roubillacs noble statue Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, STATUK OK NKWION IN THE ANTE-CHAIEL. TRIMT%- NEWTON AND BENTLEY 223 Beneath the statue are inscribed the words, adaptedfrom those apphed by Lucretius to Epicurus : NEWTON, qui genus humanum ingenio superavit. On either side, hke lesser divinities, are the seatedfigures of Bacon and Barrow : in front are rangedthose of Whewell, Tennyson and Macaulay. Hisportrait, on the wall beyond the dais, faces us onentering the hall, neighbouring the colossal figure ofHenr> VIII on the right, as Bacon does on the on the side walls we see, in long array, theportraits of the greatest of great Trinitys sons—Bentley and Porson, Dr\den and Byron, Thackerayand Tennyson. Among them all we feel that Newtonis the real Genius of Trinity, the man whose mind isstill at work to inform Cambridge studies and studentsof to-day. Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in Lincoln
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