Isaac Newton Gargoyle

Coordinates: 44°02′44.25″N 123°04′23.67″W / 44.0456250°N 123.0732417°W

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Isaac Newton Gargoyle
The sculpture (right) attached to the southwest corner of Willamette Hall in 2007

Artist	Wayne Chabre
Medium	Copper sculpture
Subject	Isaac Newton
Location	Eugene, Oregon, United States
Coordinates	44°02′44.25″N 123°04′23.67″W / 44.0456250°N 123.0732417°W / 44.0456250; -123.0732417

Isaac Newton Gargoyle is an outdoor 1988–1989 hammered copper sheet relief depicting Isaac Newton by Wayne Chabre, installed on the exterior of Willamette Hall on the University of Oregon campus, in Eugene, Oregon. The sculpture is part of the collection of the Oregon Arts Commission,^[1] and administered by the University of Oregon.^[2] It was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1994.^[2]

The piece is one of a series by Chabre at the Eugene campus that includes scientists and mathematicians Albert Einstein (Einstein Gargoyle, 1986), Marie Curie (Marie Curie Gargoyle, 1989), James Clerk Maxwell (Maxwell & Demon Gargoyle, 1989), Alan Turing (Alan Turing, 1988), John von Neumann (John von Neumann, 1987), and Thomas Condon; a fruit fly (Drosophila Fly Head, 1988); and a school of zebrafish.^[3]

The sculpture in 2011

References

^ "Isaac Newton Gargoyle". www.publicartarchive.org. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Isaac Newton Gargoyles, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
^ "60 stories in 90 seconds", Oregon Quarterly, University of Oregon, 2015, archived from the original on March 1, 2015, retrieved June 1, 2018

Public art in Eugene, Oregon

Key: † No longer extant or on public display

v t e Wayne Chabre
Sculptures	Einstein Gargoyle (1986) John von Neumann (1987) Raven Gargoyle (1987) Salmon Gargoyle (1987) Alan Turing (1988) Bear Gargoyle (1988) Drosophila Fly Head (1988) Grasshopper (1988) Isaac Newton Gargoyle (1988–1989) Marie Curie Gargoyle (1989) Maxwell & Demon Gargoyle (1989) Thomas Condon: Portrait of Condon (1989) Zebra Fish (1989)

v t e Sir Isaac Newton
Publications	Fluxions (1671) De Motu (1684) Principia (1687) Opticks (1704) Queries (1704) Arithmetica (1707) De Analysi (1711)
Other writings	Quaestiones (1661–1665) "standing on the shoulders of giants" (1675) Notes on the Jewish Temple (c. 1680) "General Scholium" (1713; "hypotheses non fingo" ) Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728) Corruptions of Scripture (1754)
Contributions	Calculus fluxion Impact depth Inertia Newton disc Newton polygon Newton–Okounkov body Newton's reflector Newtonian telescope Newton scale Newton's metal Spectrum Structural coloration
Newtonianism	Bucket argument Newton's inequalities Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of universal gravitation post-Newtonian expansion parameterized gravitational constant Newton–Cartan theory Schrödinger–Newton equation Newton's laws of motion Kepler's laws Newtonian dynamics Newton's method in optimization Apollonius's problem truncated Newton method Gauss–Newton algorithm Newton's rings Newton's theorem about ovals Newton–Pepys problem Newtonian potential Newtonian fluid Classical mechanics Corpuscular theory of light Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy Newton's notation Rotating spheres Newton's cannonball Newton–Cotes formulas Newton's method generalized Gauss–Newton method Newton fractal Newton's identities Newton polynomial Newton's theorem of revolving orbits Newton–Euler equations Newton number kissing number problem Newton's quotient Parallelogram of force Newton–Puiseux theorem Absolute space and time Luminiferous aether Newtonian series table
Personal life	Woolsthorpe Manor (birthplace) Cranbury Park (home) Early life Later life Apple tree Religious views Occult studies Scientific Revolution Copernican Revolution
Relations	Catherine Barton (niece) John Conduitt (nephew-in-law) Isaac Barrow (professor) William Clarke (mentor) Benjamin Pulleyn (tutor) Roger Cotes (student) William Whiston (student) John Keill (disciple) William Stukeley (friend) William Jones (friend) Abraham de Moivre (friend)
Depictions	Newton by Blake (monotype) Newton by Paolozzi (sculpture) Isaac Newton Gargoyle Astronomers Monument
Namesake	Newton (unit) Newton's cradle Isaac Newton Institute Isaac Newton Medal Isaac Newton Telescope Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes XMM-Newton Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form Statal Institute of Higher Education Isaac Newton Newton International Fellowship
Categories	Isaac Newton

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