Science & Exploration
Newton (after Blake)
A colossal machine-jointed Newton bends over his compasses, taken from William Blake's 1795 print. Blake meant it as a criticism of cold reason; Paolozzi fused Blake's art and Newton's science into a single figure — nature and intellect together at the door of the national library.
- Subject
- Isaac Newton, as imagined by William Blake
- Sculptor
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
- Unveiled
- 1995
- Material
- Bronze
- Location
- British Library piazza, Euston Road
