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A walk on the wilder side

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1687 and all that

Let Newton Be! A New Perspective on His Life and Works.Edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Michael Shortland and Robin Wilson. Oxford University Press: 1988. Pp.269. £17.50.

That strange fellow, Mr Newton

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Logic in Galilean scholarship

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Newton as alchemist

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