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The classic on this topic is Keynes' Newton, the Man. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Extras/Keynes_Newton.html http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/h
by canjobear 9y ago
The classic on this topic is Keynes' Newton, the Man.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Extras/Keynes_Newton.html http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Extras/Keynes_New...
> Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.
- mjfl 9y agoThis is a really obnoxious quote by Keynes, who wasn’t the perfect rationalist himself - might even consider him a magician as well, therefore Newton was certainly not the “last”