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Dec 25, 2012 · The date of death is given in contemporary Old Style dating, which in present dating is 1727. The poet Alexander Pope had written an epitaph for Newton but this was not allowed to be put on the monument in the Abbey "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light".
Highlights. Detail. An Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton. Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be – And all was light. Alexander Pope, Epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton, 1735. It is hard to exaggerate the size of Sir Isaac Newton's fame in the eighteenth century.
Alexander Pope’s well-known epitaph epitomized Isaac Newton’s fame. Even in Newton’s lifetime, his contemporaries’ adulation verged on worship. Following his death in April 1727,...
Important scientific discoveries by men like Sir Isaac Newton, who explained, in his Principia, the nature of the laws of gravitation which helped to govern that universe, were seen as corroborating that view. "Nature, and Nature's Laws lay hid in Night," Pope wrote, in a famous couplet intended as Newton's epitaph, but "God said, Let Newton be ...
English poet Alexander Pope was moved by Newton's accomplishments to write the famous epitaph: [8] Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light. English poet J. C. Squire satirised this: [9] It could not last; the Devil shouting "Ho!
March 21. Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton. By Alexander Pope (1688 1744) (Died March 21, 1727) N ATURE and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light. Contents - BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD. Previous Article. Next Article.
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ebrated English poet of his age, Alexander Pope, coined the famous epitaph “Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night. God said, Let Newton be! and All was Light.” 1 Thus God’s creation of Newton became a second fiat lux and the man himself a literal embodiment of the Enlightenment.
