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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Timothy MurphyTimothy Murphy Date: Sep 8, 2008 02:45
> What reason is there to think the Inquisition would have not burned
> Newton at the stake if they could had gotten to him?
I'm not an expert on the period, but it seems to me
that Newton could have got into trouble in England at the time
if he had published his anti-Trinitarian views.
People were still being executed in Newton's time in England
for their religious views.
Also if Newton had insulted the King as Galileo did the Pope
I doubt if his punishment would have been limited to house arrest.
I would say that Tuscany and England were both relatively liberal
at that time, as compared with almost everywhere else in Europe.
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Timothy Murphy
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