Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) herald square art Kepler's Celestial Mechanics Laws of

Kepler's Celestial Mechanics Laws of Planetary Motion Diagram traces the elliptical heresies that toppled the perfect circle — equal areas swept in equal times

his ambition lean and unmistakable beneath the plain black coat

and the original notations are preserved in the print

and Calhoun had just bargained the Union one more decade of uneasy breath

and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon — a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows

Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) herald square art Kepler's Celestial Mechanics Laws ofPatrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) an 1852 engraving reaching back nearly a century to recover the moment Henry rose against the Stamp Act, his arm cocked mid oration, the burgesses arrayed in the half shock of men hearing treason spoken plainly for the first time. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional