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Isaac Newton must have been rather busy during the 1680s. His amanuensis at the time, Humphrey Newton, later recalled how Newton devoted much of his time to the arcane art, alchemy, a testimony backed by countless notes and excerpts from alchemical books and treatises and by the experiments recorded...
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| Published in | Isaac Newton and the Study of Chronology p. 81 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
05.10.2021
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| Summary: | Isaac Newton must have been rather busy during the 1680s. His amanuensis at the time, Humphrey Newton, later recalled how Newton devoted much of his time to the arcane art, alchemy, a testimony backed by countless notes and excerpts from alchemical books and treatises and by the experiments recorded in his notebooks.¹ Likewise, the manuscript record shows he must have spent thousands of hours studying the prophecies in Scripture, as well as the history of the Church with particular attention to the Arian controversy of the fourth century CE.² The middle of the decade was most likely devoted entirely to |
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| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv21r3j94.9 |