On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:54:08 -0400, "Janice Hudnall"
<jhudnall@no-spam> wrote:
>OK- does anyone know where the 1816 Newton tooth currently resides?
Newton's health was famously good, in an age of plagues, and his
eulogy contains the phrase, "He never made use of spectacles, nor lost
any more than one single tooth during his whole life ".
This is interesting, because of Newton's invention of optometry. He
was one of the first to grind lenses _for_ spectacles, rather than
picking and choosing from ready-made lenses. His advances in the
theory of optics allowed the lenses to be designed according to the
degree of vision deficit measured in the patient.
So not only might it be a Newton tooth, it might be the _only_ Newton
tooth ! 8-)
I was in Florence a couple of weeks ago. Saw this:
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/4/eiv10.html