Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. ‘Yond Cassius has a mean and hungry look. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.’
Chemistry in the 19th C.
Robert Boyle published Sceptical Chymist in 1661, in which he separated chemistry from alchemy and gave the first definitions of a chemical element, a chemical reaction, and chemical analysis.
The Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark’s name is derived from a poem by Robert Burns called Tam o’ Shanter.
The Mad Hatter
The Mad Hatter is a reference to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (Lewis Carroll).