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Was Isaac Newton directly involved in having people killed?

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Some of Newton’s less sympathetic modern biographers have suggested that the prosecution of counterfeiters provided an outlet for Newton’s sadistic impulses, but I find this tendentious. read more

His maternal uncle, the rector serving the parish of Burton Coggles, was involved in some part in the care of Isaac. During 1667 Newton was a Fellow at Cambridge, making necessary the commitment to taking Holy Orders within seven years of completion of his studies. read more

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