Keynes might not see Newton under this light, but there is a reason others do: “Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations […] may i

Keynes might not see Newton under this light, but there is a reason others do: “Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations […] may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.”—Roger Cotes, preface to Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, second edition, 1713