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NEWTON, THE LAST OF THE MAGICIANS

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« on: August 21, 2007, 08:18:15 pm »








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Throughout his life, Newton spent more time intensely involved with alchemy than any of his scientific pursuits.

Many of his biographers, confronted with what they see as completely divergent writings from Newton, have chosen to gloss over anything that does not fit easily into the image of Newton generally acknowledged. Anything that has not been considered in keeping with his scientific discoveries has often been regarded as misguided.

 A more authentic picture of Newton, concealed for so long, began to come to light when John Maynard Keyes purchased a collection of papers that had been rejected by Cambridge as having no scientific value. In 1942 Keyes delivered a speech on these papers giving illumination to a very different view of the great man.





"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the

Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world

with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000

years ago."
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