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To: koan who wrote (49765)3/15/2014 8:04:30 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
"Newton was nuts"

He was an incredible mind. I have read his writings in the original. Unfortunately he took some premises as primae facie because that was his society and there was no knowledge of human biological history then. He had to start with premises. He was defective but he was not nuts. He was a great GENIUS who lived in the wrong (or maybe the right) time...

Before biological understanding of history, we had to account for the whole cosmos and for being here. It was hard to disregard myth because myth was all there was...