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Civilization’s Great Thinkers
A sequence of figures that places intellectual history directly on the face of a public building.
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Civilization’s Great Thinkers
Los Angeles Public Library · South Façade
The six figures on the south façade are known as the Greats: Herodotus, Virgil, Socrates, Justinian, Leonardo da Vinci and Copernicus. They stand apart from the Seers, who are named higher on the Library tower.
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