# Isaac Newton [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLAKE, William]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Copper engraving with pen and ink and watercolour, 460 x 600 mm ## Commentary Blake sought to exemplify the deeper significance of his philosophical thought in the tension between the immediate realism of his image and fantastic symbolism. Newton, man naked and created out of chaos, appears to be breaking through the chaos. He is discovering the law that is inherent in his own physical nature. Man has tasted of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and now his intellect reveals to his astonished gaze the abstract reality of creation. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve Sleeping]() - [Albion, Symbolic Figure]() - [Christ as the Redeemer of Man]() - [Elisha in the Chamber on the Wall]() - [Elohim Creating Adam]() - [Hecate or the Three Fates]() - [Job and his Daughters]() - [Job Confessing his Presumption to God who Answers from the Whirlwind]() - [Lear Grasping a Sword]() - [Los Entering the Grave]() - [Los]() - [Nebuchadnezzar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()