Re: Truth (was Re: virus: Language)

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 04:00:04 -0500


hey,

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