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It turns out Keynes knew about this a long time ago: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Extras/Keynes_Newton.html "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians..." On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > Today’s Washington Post has an article with the rather lurid title “Isaac > Newton spent a lot of time on junk ‘science,’ and this manuscript proves > it”. It turns out that he was “super into alchemy” as reporter Elahe Izadi > puts it. > > full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/04/09/isaac-newton-and-junk-science/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Progressive Economics" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > https://groups.google.com/a/mail.csuchico.edu/group/pen-l/. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mail.csuchico.edu/d/msgid/pen-l/57090FC1.808%40panix.com. > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mail.csuchico.edu/d/optout. -- Ian J. Seda-Irizarry Assistant Professor Department of Economics John Jay College City University of New York 524 West 59th Street, 3404N New York, NY 10019 Office: 212-393-6425 CellPhone: 413-306-8683 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
