Westminster Cathedral
This building looks familiar, doesn’t it? This is a Gothic style architecture. The Gothic style is its towering, sharp-edged doors and windows, and the Hogwarts Academy in "Harry Potter" is Gothic, and some scenes in the movie "The Da Vinci Code" also happen here.
This is the largest Gothic building in the world, a famous British tourist attraction: Westminster Abbey .
Westminster Abbey was built in 960 and has been continuously expanded and renovated. It has become an architectural artifact that has been more than 1,000 years old and a world cultural heritage site. (In 960, the post-Zhou dynasty of China's Later Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin initiated the Chenqiao Mutiny and started the Northern Song Dynasty)
Westminster Abbey was originally a Catholic church exclusive to the royal family. Later, the Holy See and Parliament all occupied it one after another, and today it has become the British tourism business card. In addition to having great religious, historical and artistic value, this place is actually a monumental place in the history of human science.
Scientist's Corner
In addition to being buried here after the death of the royal family, many celebrities from the cultural, artistic and scientific circles in the UK will also be buried here after the death of the British. In the north corridor of the church, there is a cemetery for scientific celebrities known as the Scientist's Corner.
Church center
The most famous one is Newton . Newton was the first natural scientist in human history to receive a state funeral. Above his cemetery was a statue of Newton, next to it was a huge earth shape to commemorate his scientific achievements.
Newton on the left, Darwin
On the right are buried here:
- biologist Darwin who wrote "Origin of Species";
- astronomer Heschel who discovered Uranus;
- physicist Rutherford who discovered atomic structure;
- who proposed the second law of thermodynamics William Tom Sun
- l6 (the more famous title is Lord Kelvin);
- The originator of geology who wrote "Principles of Geology" Charles Lair ;
- The modern physicist who proposed Hawking radiation Stephen Hawking . He was buried here after his death in 2018;
, etc.…
There are also some British scientific celebrities who were unable to be buried here for various reasons, but there is a monument here:
- , the father of electrical science Faraday . Because the religion of faith did not belong to the Anglican Church, Westminster Abbey was the royal church of the Anglican Church at that time, so it was not realized;
- , the father of electromagnetics, , Maxwell, . A celebrity who, together with Newton and Einstein, created a discipline by himself;
- , founder of quantum electrodynamics, Paul Dirac . Propose the famous Dirac equation;
- physicist joule . He has become a celebrity in the unit of energy measurement;
- designed the optical genius Thomas Young ;
- mathematician George Green ;
and so on...
Inscription of the tomb of Newton
The buried here is Lord Isaac Newton. He used his nearly sacred mind and unique mathematical principles to explore the movement and shape of planets, the trajectory of comets, the tides of the ocean, the different tones of light, and the characteristics of colors that other scholars have never imagined before. With his diligence, intelligence and piety in studying nature, antiquities and the Bible, he proved the omnipotence of the Supreme God in his philosophy and expressed the concise truth of the Gospel in his personal way. People are delighted by this: such brilliant glory has appeared in human history.
Voltaire, who once witnessed Newton holding a state funeral in Westminster, sighed: When entering Westminster Abbey, people admired not the tombs of the kings, but the monument of the country to thank the greatest figures who have brought glory to the country. This is the respect of the British people for their talents.
17-18th century Britain had a noble status and honor, which is probably the reason why this small island country can dominate the world for hundreds of years.
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