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23. Hall, Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought (quotations p. xiv).
24. Poole, Time’s Alteration; Times, 19 March 1927. 11f–12a (H. H. Turner) and 21 March 1927, 10 (letter); Keynes, p. 27.
25. Tupper, p. 134; British Quarterly Review 22 (1855), 321.
26. Quinault (1866 Pall Mall Gazette quoted p. 320); Nature 119 (1927), 467; Cohen, ‘Commemorations’.
27. Llewellyn; Jalland.
28. Abir-Am ‘Historical ethnogoraphy’ and ‘How scientists view heroes’; Bensaude-Vincent; Bell.
29. Pahin-Champlain de la Blancherie, p. 118.
30. Grantham Journal, 10 July 1987; Mialet, especially pp. 562–73; Hawking, ‘Newton’s Principia’.
31. Holderness; Bate, Shakespeare, pp. 65–100; Mais, p. 1225; Secord, Victorian Sensation, pp. 515–32.
32. Letters to The Times (1, 10, 13, 20 August 1992) and to The Times Literary Supplement (19 March and 9 April 1993).
33. http://www.levenger.com/Newton/
34. Keesing, pp. 387–90. Personal Computer World (May 1998), 27.
35. Blaazer; Brackenridge, pp. 89–93.
36. Gerald Holden (1961) quoted in Merton, p. 266; Melvyn Bragg and Norman Thrower have both titled books with this expression; Independent, 18 December 1999, 5.
37. Quoted Westfall, Never at Rest, p. 596 (from Voltaire’s Dictionnaire philosophique).
38. Westfall, Never at Rest, p. 601; Manuel, p. 262.
39. Times Literary Supplement, 17 March 1927, 167.
40. Keynes, p. 27.
41. White, Last Sorcerer, p. 3; The Six Experiments that Changed the World, Channel 4, 12 March 2000.
42. Beaven, p. 76; Keyes.
43. Sunday Times Magazine (12 September 1999), 40 (David Starkey).
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