Mark PS Actually it isn't the news some people seem to think, that Newton was a cabalist, magician, projector and [failed] alchemist. That was what he was really interested in and what he considered his life's work. All that stuff about gravity, calculus, etc, was just his day-job.
Charles Brown wrote:
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> >>> Mark Jones wrote:
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> Since everybody is now
> agreed that (a) Newton was actually a loony alchemist and (b) clocks weren't
> very important to the Ind Revo (c) even if there was a Science Revolution,
> it made no difference to industrial technology, then it clearly doesn't
> matter whether or not the Chinese had science, or indeed whether, as
> Frank argues, Europe was sinified and Indianised in the 18th c.
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> Mark, is this a joke ? or serious ?
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> Charles