Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey.
Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey.
Alexander Pope
ISAACUS NEWTONUS:
QUEM IMMORTALEM
TESTANTUR TEMPUS, NATURA, COELUM:
MORTALEM
HOC MARMOR FATETUR.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
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