From: Wesley Schwein (schwein@pegasus.montclair.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 16 1998 - 12:53:26 MST
On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem
> to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting
> myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell
> than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered
> before me."
The pebbles and shells Newton referred to were calculus, gravity, optics,
and the other things we like to remember him for. The "great ocean of
truth" was the exciting world of Biblical interpretation and alchemy,
topics of lifelong interest for Newton and to which he devoted vastly more
time and care.
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Wesley Schwein groxon seauton
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