Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Isaac Barrow NPG D650

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard Earlom, after David Loggan

Isaac Barrow was a mathematician and classical scholar, recognised today for his role in the development of modern calculus. During the 1650s Barrow wrote several concise Latin editions of the Greek mathematicians, utilising symbols for brevity. A Royalist at the time of the civil war, he travelled abroad from 1655 to 1659. The Restoration enabled him to take up various academic posts and in 1663 he was selected as the first occupant of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, where he was instrumental in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.