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Isaac Newton: alchemist and fundamentalist
Skeptical Inquirer, Sept-Oct, 1996 by Martin Gardner
My major references for working on this column are Richard Westfall's great biography of Newton, Never at Rest (1980); Frank Manuel's The Religion of Isaac Newton (1983); Bernard Cohen's sixty-page article on Newton in The Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1974); and two valuable papers by Richard Popkin: "Newton and the Origins of Fundamentalism," reprinted in The Scientific Enterprise (1992), edited by Edna Ullmann-Margalit, and "Newton and Fundamentalism," in Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology (1990), by James Force and Popkin. Popkin makes a strong case for the enormous influence of Newton's Biblical exegesis on the early history of Protestant fundamentalism.
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Martin Gardner's latest book is The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 (St. Martin's Press), published in July 1996.
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