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Newton's papers became known because his estate passed to aristocratic relatives who eventually auctioned the papers, with the sale going poorly enough that notes were sold piecemeal.
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Newton's papers became known because his estate passed to aristocratic relatives who eventually auctioned the papers, with the sale going poorly enough that notes were sold piecemeal.
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John Maynard Keynes bought and read some Newton papers expecting mathematics but found alchemy and theology instead.
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"OK. OK. So Newton. OK. So why do we know that Newton predicted the end of the world? OK. The reason why is this...."
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"...piecemeal, OK? And one person who bought the notes was John Keynes, the economist, John Keynes, the economist. And he was so excited to..."
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"...know about this because in the 1930s, the economist John Maynard Keynes, he bought Newton's papers at an auction. And he really believed that..."
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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