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Newton after Blake

Eduardo Paolozzi's giant Newton, bent over his compasses in the British Library piazza.

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Photo by Loco Steve from Bromley, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Paolozzi took William Blake's 1795 print of Newton measuring the universe with a pair of dividers, hunched and blind to everything but his geometry, and made it four metres tall in bronze, assembled from bolted sections as if the scientist himself were a machine. It sits in the piazza of the British Library, which holds the Blake, and is the best-known piece of the sculptor who also designed the Tottenham Court Road mosaics.

Where
British Library piazza, Euston Road, NW1 2DB
Nearest station
King's Cross St Pancras · 4 min walk

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