“Lo, for your gaze, the pattern of the skies! What balance of the mass, what reckonings Divine! Here ponder too the Laws which God, Framing the universe, set not aside But made the fixed foundations of his work. . . Then ye who now on heavenly nectar fare, Come celebrate with me in song the name Of Newton, to the Muses dear; for he Unlocked the hidden treasuries of Truth: So richly through his mind had Phoebus cast The radiance of his own divinity. Nearer the gods no mortal may approach”. Edmund Halley (1727) speaking at Newtons funeral:
On the Shoulders of Giants – John Bernoulli(c 1696) regarding Newton “tanquam, ex ungue leonem” i.e we know the lion by his claw.