Thursday, October 3, 2013

The (Tormented) Genius of Isaac Newton and the (following) Age of Reason

Isaac Newton--the formulator of the great Universal Theory of Gravitation--became in the next century a hero of the Enlightenment...a paragon of reason and rationalism. These brief video clips discuss instead that Newton's infatuation with alchemy and heretical sects make him a much more complex (and human) person.






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