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Eduardo Paolozzi's Newton, bronze 1995.

Paolozzi's statue in the courtyard of the British Library in London, is not a direct representation of Isaac Newton but rather seeks to capture the idea that with Newton's equations and his laws of motion and gravity, the Universe became a more deterministic and measured place.

The statue draws its inspiration from William Blake's The Ancient of Days which illustrates a geometer God measuring his creation of the world with a pair of dividers. Blake was similarly influenced by Newton's revolution to our world view of universe governed by underlying mathematical laws.



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