Martin Folkes (1690-1754) : Newtonian, antiquary, connoisseur / by Anna Marie Roos.
Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociab...
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