Internet erupts as bench honouring Sir Isaac Newton is taken down after his name was misspelled
A NEW bench honouring maths whizz Sir Isaac Newton is set to be removed — after his name was spelt wrong.
The tribute was recently unveiled near his birthplace and the garden where a falling apple inspired his discovery of gravity in 1665.
But engravers working on his first name wrote Issac rather than Isaac on the ornate design.
The blunder was spotted by passers-by who commented on social media.
One said: “Always check the spelling before you start cutting metal.”
The company which produced the bench near Woolsthorpe Manor in Grantham, Lincs, said the error was due to be corrected.
A spokesman said: “We’re not all programmed by computers, these mistakes do happen.”
Colsterworth and District Parish Council, which commissioned the bench, was approached for comment.
Newton is credited with laying the foundations for our scientific age, with his laws of motion and theory of gravity underpinning much of modern physics and engineering.
He died aged 84 in 1727 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.