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Jul29-05, 10:29 AM   #13
 
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Newton was quite appropriately called "The Last Sorcerer" by a biographer.
His main corpus of work where in the occult area, rather than in natural science and math.

("The last Alchemist" would have been more accurate,IMO, but "sorcerer" is cooler and more catchy)