The potted history of Isaac Newton's life is well known. Following a puritanical upbringing, Newton went to Cambridge in 1661, already a mathematical prodigy. As a professor there, he became a champion of the new mechanical sciences and redefined man's understanding of the physical world with works like “Opticks” and “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.” This is the Isaac Newton of whom Voltaire said: “Metaphysicians and theologians are much like those gladiators who were obliged to fight hoodwinked.
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