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In his “Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton,” Giovanni
Battista
Pittoni celebrated the famous prismatic experiment demonstrating the
heterogeneity of sunlight. From: Eugene MacSwiny, Tombeaux des
princes, de
grands
capitaines et autres hommes illustres (London,
1741) – Miriam and
Ira
D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and
Photographs, NYPL
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