Identification of Rare Newton Statue

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I'm not sure where else to post this. No matter how inventive my Google searches, I am unable to locate an active webpage containing this rare statue of Isaac Newton that I stored on my computer a number of years ago. Can anybody identify information about this statue?

wow - nothing from google image search! Also - @Spencer can't you use GoogleTranslate on that page you found? — Carl Witthoft, Oct 28 '21 at 13:01
@Spencer Can you link the page? I had tried a reverse image Google search a while ago, but even that failed. — user7348, Oct 28 '21 at 22:11

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 28 '21 at 13:14

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Perhaps this is a lead: I found an article which includes the following text [emphasis mine] .

The campus of Broad Group in Changsha was designed to reflect Zhang Yue’s eclectic influences and his passion for the environment. It encompasses a sprawling organic garden that provides up to half of the food consumed by his workers, and the grounds are dotted with dozens of statues of inspirational figures, from Confucius and the poet Li Bai to Coco Chanel and Jack Welch. There are likenesses of environmentalist Rachel Carson, Sir Isaac Newton with an apple about to fall on his head, and Winston Churchill flashing a V for Victory sign. One company building is modeled after the palace at Versailles, another after an Egyptian pyramid.

answered Oct 28 '21 at 13:14

Carl Witthoft

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Interesting. I used Google Maps to see if street-view or satellite-view would show anything: Changsha - Google Maps. Strangely, switching between "map" and "satellite" causes the street overlays to shift by about 600 metres (for Americans, that's 3 furlongs). Apparently this is something China does with GPS coordinates to discourage spying on them. – Ray Butterworth Oct 28 '21 at 13:33
Interesting, how did you find this? – user7348 Oct 28 '21 at 22:09
@user7348 I set the Google search string to something like "China statue Isaac Newton apple falling on head" and lucked out :-) – Carl Witthoft Oct 29 '21 at 13:16
@Carl Without Interesting, I tried the same thing and came up blank. It must be sensitive to an exact word search. – user7348 Oct 29 '21 at 16:38
@user7348 or Google Search treats me as a "SuperUser" :-) – Carl Witthoft Nov 01 '21 at 13:03

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '21 at 15:03

Following up on Carl Witthoft's lead, I found another image at this link. To locate the image, you can search the page for the text "第五章：科技筑梦" to avoid lots of scrolling. The image, shown below, provides the full background text:

没有大胆的猜测

就没有伟大的发现

(paraphrasing google translate, this comes out to: "Without bold guesses, there is no great discovery")

Identification of Rare Newton Statue

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