Library window detail
Introduction
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Library window detail
Image: © Jonathan Kington Taken: 1 Feb 2011
Above the Image of the Nicholson Institute are the carvings of four philosophers and a quote from a fifth. From left to right we have: Sir William Shakespeare, playwright, 1564-1616. Sir Isaac Newton, physicist and mathematician, 1642-1721. Sir Joshua Reynolds, artist, 1723-1792. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet, 1809-1892. The quote on the plaque above comes from Areopagitica, a prose tract written in 1644 by John Milton for a speech he gave to Parliament on unlicensed printing: "A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life". This window must be part of the extension added in 1900 because Tennyson was still alive when the original building was built in 1884.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.107165
Longitude
-2.02371