Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Nicholas Saunderson NPG D27603

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and sold by John Faber Jr, after John Vanderbank

Saunderson went blind aged one year after he contracted smallpox. He taught mathematics, astronomy and optics at Cambridge University from 1707 and became Professor of Mathematics in 1712. He later worked closely with Halley and Flamsteed in their attempts to calculate longitude at sea, one of the major challenges of the eighteenth century.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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