The faith of a scientist: Newton was a genius obsessed by obscure theological disputes and early church history

[Newton's] “visceral” and “rampant” anti-Catholicism was exacerbated by a series of fractious disputes with Jesuit scientists on scientific questions relating to his experiments with light and colours …

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