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On 09.04.2016 16:20, Louis Proyect via Marxism 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/
This is ancient history. I remember reading about it 40 years ago when I
did a course on history of natural science while studying sociology.
IIRC he was also into astrology and even made up horoscopes.
His interest in esoterica was a theme in an alternative history book I
read a long time ago - but the name of the book escapes me at the moment.
Einde O'Callaghan
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