Photo reproduction of Robert Hart’s stipple engraving published by Charles Knight of London in 1834, after a 1757 oil on canvas portrait done by Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) and presented to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1759; Ramsay inspired after Flemish portraitist Justus Sustermans’ (1597-1681) oil on canvas portrait of Galileo painted c. 1640, which hangs in the Pitti Gallery in Florence.
Employed in 1849 by Joule in his determination of the “Mechnical Equivalent of Heat,” when he obtained the first reliable value of the equivalent relation between energy and heat. Photographs: Concerning History of Science