Trans/Form/Ação (Jan 1997)

Alquimia: Isaac Newton revisitado Alchemy: Isaac Newton Revisited

  • Reginaldo Carmello Corrêa de Moraes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-31731997000100002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 1
pp. 39 – 44

Abstract

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Nota sobre publicações recentes que revelam aspectos pouco conhecidos da biblioteca de Newton - os numerosos textos religiosos, místicos e herméticos. Os biógrafos de Newton resistiram muito até admitir que os escritos esotéricos fossem genuíno interesse do sábio e que tivessem importância para entender sua trajetória intelectual. As publicações aqui indicadas afirmam o contrário, seguindo trilha aberta por ensaio pioneiro de J. M. Keynes (1946).A note on recent books about an unexplored side of Newton’s library: religious, mystical and hermetic texts. Newton's biographers had resisted so much to believe that esoteric writings were in Newton’s field of interest. Even if they recognized that, they didn't believe those strange works were important elements to understand his intellectual trajectory. The studies we mention here are saying just the opposite thing, exploring the way opened by the pioneer essay of J. M. Keynes (1946).

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