Newton’s Secrets Revealed [Book Review]

Metascience 31 (1):5-10 (2022)
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Essay review of William R. Newman: Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature’s “secret fire.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, 560 pp, $39.95.

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