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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyDay" data-source="post: 53639444" data-attributes="member: 6146"><p>Cute, but is it true? Evidence says, "<a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astrology/newton.htm" target="_blank">Unlikely</a>". The actual reference seems to be:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 12px"> More than 50 years ago the American historian of science I. Bernard Cohen<a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Evgent/astrology/newton_main.htm#%5B20%5D" target="_blank">[20]</a> was able to trace it back to the highly regarded Newton biographies by the English physicist David Brewster (1781-1868) in which it is cited in full as:<a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Evgent/astrology/newton_main.htm#%5B21%5D" target="_blank">[21]</a></span> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 12px">... when Dr. Halley ventured to say anything disrespectful to religion, he invariably checked him, with the remark, I have studied these things you have not.<a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Evgent/astrology/newton_main.htm#%5B22%5D" target="_blank">[22]</a></span></p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyDay, post: 53639444, member: 6146"] Cute, but is it true? Evidence says, "[url=http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astrology/newton.htm]Unlikely[/url]". The actual reference seems to be: [indent][SIZE=3] More than 50 years ago the American historian of science I. Bernard Cohen[URL="http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Evgent/astrology/newton_main.htm#%5B20%5D"][20][/URL] was able to trace it back to the highly regarded Newton biographies by the English physicist David Brewster (1781-1868) in which it is cited in full as:[URL="http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Evgent/astrology/newton_main.htm#%5B21%5D"][21][/URL][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=3]... when Dr. Halley ventured to say anything disrespectful to religion, he invariably checked him, with the remark, I have studied these things you have not.[URL="http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Evgent/astrology/newton_main.htm#%5B22%5D"][22][/URL][/SIZE][/indent][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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