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“Guicciardini’s is the first synthetic book that really tries to incorporate what you could call the new Newton scholarship. The picture you get there of Newton as not so much a kind of psychopath that you get in Manuel and to some degree Westfall but rather Newton as a kind of—as Mordechai Feingold has put it—“Caltech geek”. “ Read more...
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