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The unknown Newton



The genius who gave us three laws of motion wrote even more about the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon. Eventually, all of his work -- about 10 million words -- will be on the Web. DAN FALK reports



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I think http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk is the official site for this - it's certainly picking up steam now, there's some impressive work gone into it already. It's a great example of what the Internet's good at.
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Excellent, I have always wanted to look properly at the Principa, but he was a bit of a misanthropic old git as well wasn't he? Still you can't fault his whole complete universal genius thing. I will follow this with some interest.
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