Augustan

Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey.

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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.