Newton

William Blake believed that Newton was reducing the world to numbers and in doing so reducing the mystery of the Deity and that the Newtonian, scientific view of the world would damage the artistic aesthetic. To show his opposition he drew Newton "measuring" God's creation. This was all ages ago - the start of the 19th Century.

In 1995 Paolozzi was commissioned to produce a bronze of Newton after Blake and this wonderful statue stands in the piazza outside the British Library. I managed to grab a couple of shots on the way back from Euston to St Pancras after a day trip to Birmingham. It's a beautiful piece and enormous - it fits the space very well indeed and it's well worth seeing.