View Catalog: THEM00014
Catalog Name | THEM00014 | |
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Document | Keynes Ms. 106 | |
Title | Correspondence with Thomas Burnet | |
Subtitle | ||
Author | Isaac Newton | |
Place of Origin | England | |
Origin Date | 13 January 1681 and later | |
Repository | King's College | |
Pages | ||
Wordcount | 7,295 | |
Language | English;Latin;Greek;Hebrew; |
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Burnet, fellow of Christ's College, communicated with Newton in relation to his forthcoming Sacred History of the Earth. Newton argued that Moses's account of Creation should be taken as true, despite the fact that Moses had to dumb down ('accommodate') his language to make it comprehensible to ordinary people. He also claimed that various mundane chemical phenomena can shed light on how God created order out of chaos.
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