Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I hear what you're saying here, but Newton was a sorcerer in
> a rather more literal sense, eg alchemy. He was also a strange
> sort of fundamentalist christian -- I mean, strange even for
> a fundy! Which is interesting given that he's seen as one
> of the foundation-layers of science.
I shall certainly have to do some more reading -- the little history I have
of Newton comes from a mathmatical history course -- which never, of
course, mentioned religion. Interesting little things turn up all over in
history, eh?
ERiC