Sir Isaac Newton

I have never previously seen the Roubiliac statue of Isaac Newton in the ante-chapel at Trinity, as grand a piece of commemorative sculpture as I’ve seen. Newton had died in 1727, so it is long posthumous, a deeply impressive piece of memorialisation, conveying all of Newton’s intellectual authority, not least by its placing:-

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