Re: Newton's later "research"

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

One of the issues for him was that he was a Unitarian, not believing in
the Trinity, which if well known, could have caused him a bit of
difficulty, like maybe losing his chair.

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Hugh Haskell
wrote:

> > Look at Sam Westfall's definitive biography of Newton.
> >
> > joe
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 1999,
> > Jim Braunsdorf wrote:
> >
> > > We all are very familiar with the fact that Newton did the bulk of his
> > > remarkable work at a young age and was quite well-respected for that work.
> > >   I believe that I read that in his later years he did venture into
> > > more theology or at  least non-physics areas.
> > >   Does any one have a source to steer me too on any publishing Newton
> > > did in this area?
> > > Jim braunsdorf
>
> I concur. There are several good biographies of Newton out now. I
> believe that the "research" he spent a good bit of his time on in his
> middle and later years was of a nature that he was not too willing to
> see in the public domain. Much of it was alchemical, and he felt that
> the church would not approve, so I don't believe he published any of
> this work. Our knowledge of it must come from his private writings,
> and usually by way of his biographers.
>
> Hugh
>
>
> Hugh Haskell
> <mailto://hhaskell@mindspring.com>
>
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