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The word cenotaph comes from ancient greek and means “empty tomb” (κενός, “kenos”, empty and τάφος, “taphos”, tomb). It indicates a funerary monument celebrating a figure interred elsewhere. In 1784, the architect Étienne-Louis Boullée designed the most utopic one, which was never built: Cénotaphe à Newton. The structure would have taken the form of a sphere 150 m (490 ft) high embedded in a circular base topped with cypress trees, reminding the shape of the apple and of the earth. The small sarcophagus for Newton is placed at the lower pole of the sphere. The design of the memorial creates the effect of day and night. The effect by night, when the sarcophagus is illuminated by the starlight coming through the holes in the vaulting. The effect by day is an armillary sphere hanging in the center that gives off a mysterious glow. For Boullée symmetry and variety were the golden rules of architecture.  ~ Hope on 25th you did celebrate Isaac’s birth instead of Jezuz’ /

The word cenotaph comes from ancient greek and means “empty tomb” (κενός, “kenos”, empty and τάφος, “taphos”, tomb). It indicates a funerary monument celebrating a figure interred elsewhere. In 1784, the architect Étienne-Louis Boullée designed the most utopic one, which was never built: Cénotaphe à Newton. The structure would have taken the form of a sphere 150 m (490 ft) high embedded in a circular base topped with cypress trees, reminding the shape of the apple and of the earth. The small sarcophagus for Newton is placed at the lower pole of the sphere. The design of the memorial creates the effect of day and night. The effect by night, when the sarcophagus is illuminated by the starlight coming through the holes in the vaulting. The effect by day is an armillary sphere hanging in the center that gives off a mysterious glow. For Boullée symmetry and variety were the golden rules of architecture.  ~ Hope on 25th you did celebrate Isaac’s birth instead of Jezuz’ /

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