They didn't do burning at the stake after Bloody Mary, it felt Papist.
Newton would have loathed all Jews and especially atheists, but he was a big-time heretic in his own right, a Unitarian. That didn't mean he was a nice liberal (he was a cruel conservative, he'd have liked Thatcher) with anti-war bumper stickers on his Volvo; it meant he denied the doctrine of the Trinity, which would have been enough to get him fired from Cambridge and barred from government service. He was, in fact, a complete religious lunatic (even in the terms of his own time) who wrote long, passionate, and secret books about his wacko ideas. He apparently didn't think it was any accident he was born on Christmas Day either. Read Frank Manuel's beautifully written, totally accessible and nontechnical biography. For folks as want the scientific details, read Westfall's bio.
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Eouldn't Newton have wanted you burned alive for
> having suggested such a thing? :)
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Happy Newton's Day!
> >
> > Sir Isaac Newton, discoverer of classical
> mechanics
> > and optics, co-discoverer of the calculus,
> > alchemist,
> > heretic, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at
> > Cambridge University (Trinity), leader of the
> Royal
> > Society, MP from Cambridge, Master of the Mint,
> born
> > Dec 25, 1642, d 1727:
> >
> > F = g(m1m2/d2)
> >
> > (that's the simple version in modern notation of
> the
> > formula for the law of gravity)
> >
> > Bear that in mind.
> >
> > Her pealing organ was my neighbour too;
> > And from my pillow, looking forth by light
> > Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold
> > The antechapel where the statue stood
> > Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
> > The marble index of a mind for ever
> > Voyaging through the strange seas of Thought,
> alone.
> >
> >
> > --Wordsworth, the Prelude
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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