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The Janus Faces of Genius - The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought (Paperback, Revised)
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The Janus Faces of Genius - The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought (Paperback, Revised)
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In this major re-evaluation of Isaac Newton's intellectual life,
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs shows how his pioneering work in mathematics,
physics, and cosmology was intertwined with his study of alchemy.
Directing attention to the religious ambience of the alchemical
enterprise of early modern Europe, Dobbs argues that Newton
understood alchemy - and the divine activity in micromatter to
which it spoke - to be a much needed corrective to the overly
mechanized system of Descartes. The same religious basis underlay
the rest of his work. To Newton it seemed possible to obtain
partial truths from many different approaches to knowledge, be it
textual work aimed at the interpretation of prophecy, the study of
ancient theology and philosophy, creative mathematics, or
experiments with prisms, pendulums, vegetating minerals, light, or
electricity. Newton's work was a constant attempt to bring these
partial truths together, with the larger goal of restoring true
natural philosophy and true religion.
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