Sir Isaac Newton as Religious Prophet, Heretic, and Reformer
In 1674, Isaac Newton (1642–1726) informed German theologian Henry Oldenburg that he had “long since determined to concern [himself] no further about ye promotion of Philosophy.”[1] This admission seems strange, given that his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica would be published a decade later in 1687. But again, in 1679, Newton