MAKE A MEME View Large Image ThomasHarriot.jpg Artist A portrait believed to be of Thomas Harriot also spelt Harriott or Hariot c 1560 “ 2 July 1621 an English astronomer mathematician ethnographer and translator apparently painted during his lifetime 1602 Trinity ...
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Keywords: ThomasHarriot.jpg Artist A portrait believed to be of Thomas Harriot also spelt Harriott or Hariot c 1560 “ 2 July 1621 an English astronomer mathematician ethnographer and translator apparently painted during his lifetime 1602 Trinity College Oxford The top left-hand corner of the portrait bears the Latin inscription AN DÑI ANNO DOMINI 1602 / ATATIS SW AETATIS SUAE 3 2 In the year of our Lord 1602 / Aged 32 ; the space between the numbers 3 and 2 is in the portrait This casts some doubt on whether the portrait is of Harriot “ since Harriot was born about 1560 he would have been about 42 years old in 1602 The portrait appears as Plate 1 of Muriel Rukeyser's book The Traces of Thomas Hariot the caption of which reads Thomas Hariot Even with the wrong details this is taken to be his portrait Muriel Rukeyser The Traces of Thomas Hariot London Gollancz 1972 0575013540 See cite web John Dudley Notes on the Hariot Portrait http //www luminarium org/renlit/hariotpic htm 16th Century Renaissance English Literature 1485 “1603 Luminarium Anthology of English Literature 15 October 1997 2008-11-18 http //www ecu edu/cs-cas/images/harriot jpg PD-Art Other versions PD-old-100 Thomas Harriot Trinity College Oxford Paintings in Oxfordshire 1602 paintings in the United Kingdom 17th-century portraits of men Mathematicians in art Scientists in 1602
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