This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with a
This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with an opinion or confirm the accuracy of any text appearing alongside or in logical association with the image. Richard Lovett (1692-1780), British physicist. Lovett is here consulting his book 'Philosophical Essays in Three Parts' (1766). Lovett also wrote a brief theory of the north magnetic pole, and the mariner's compass needle. The piece of paper at lower right shows compass points and the parallel of the latitude of Greenwich, with a globe at bottom right and an apparatus on the table. Lovett is shown here in his clerical collar, and was a lay clerk of Cathedral Church of Worcester. This mezzotint is by the English artist Robert Hancock (1730-1817), after an original work by English artist Joseph Wright (1734-1797).
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