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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
Eduardo Paolozzi's giant Newton, bent over his compasses in the British Library piazza.
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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.
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