The Clockwork Universe (37 page)

303
“even if an angel”
: Brown, “Leibniz-Caroline Correspondence,” p. 291.

304
If the sun suddenly exploded
: Brian Greene,
The Elegant Universe
(New York: Norton, 1999), p. 56.

305
“so great an absurdity”
: Westfall,
Never at Rest
, p. 505.

305
“To tell us that every Species”
: From the end of
Opticks
, quoted in Kuhn,
The Copernican Revolution
, p. 259.

306
“as if it were a Crime”
: Westfall,
Never at Rest
, p. 779.

306
“Ye cause of gravity”
: Ibid., p. 505.

306
“I have not been able to discover”
: Cohen's translation of the
Principia
, p. 428.

Chapter 52. In Search of God

307fn
The debate over whether
: “Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Change Dispute,”
New York Times
, November 21, 2009.

308
“He is eternal and infinite”
: Cohen's translation of the
Principia
, p. 427.

309
“Scientists
,
like whoring Jerusalem”
: Dennis Todd, “Laputa, the Whore of Babylon, and the Idols of Science,”
Studies in Philology
75, no. 1 (Winter 1978), p. 113.

310
“they may do any thing”
: Quoted in a brilliant, far-ranging essay by Steven Shapin, “Of Gods and Kings: Natural Philosophy and Politics in the Leibniz-Clarke Disputes,” p. 211.

311
If you stopped to think about it
,
wrote Whiston
: Todd, “Laputa, the Whore of Babylon, and the Idols of Science,” p. 108.

311
“Sir Isaac Newton
,
and his followers”
: Westfall,
Never at Rest
, p. 778.

311
“If God does not concern himself”
: Shapin, “Of Gods and Kings,” p. 193
.

312
“If a king had a kingdom”
: I owe this observation about Leibniz and politics to Martin Tamny, “Newton, Creation, and Perception,” p. 54.

312
Newton emphasized God's will
: Shapin, “Of Gods and Kings,” p. 194.

Conclusion

315
a French mathematician named Urbain Le Verrier
: Kline,
Mathematics
:
The Loss of Certainty
, pp. 62–63, and Kline,
Mathematics in Western Culture
, p. 210.

316
Benjamin Franklin sat deep in thought
: Bernard Bailyn,
To Begin the World Anew
(New York: Vintage, 2004), pp. 71–73.

316
“The Constitution of the United States”
: I. Bernard Cohen,
Science and the Founding Fathers
, p. 90.

317
“I had no need of that hypothesis”
: Kline,
Mathematics in Western Culture
, p. 210.

317
“Mr. Leibniz is dead”
: Westfall,
Never at Rest
, p. 779.

317
“Nothing could give me a greater”
: Brown, “Leibniz-Caroline Correspondence,” p. 285.

318
“You would have thought it was a felon”
: Stewart,
The Courtier and the Heretic
, p. 306.

318
“The more I got to know Leibniz”
: Ibid., p. 117, quoting Eike Hirsch.

319
“stone dolls”
: Milo Keynes discusses Newton's views on art and literature in “The Personality of Isaac Newton,” pp. 26–27.

319
“If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons”
: from an interview with Huxley in J. W. N. Sullivan,
Contemporary Mind
(London: Toulmin, 1934), p. 143.

319
“The more I learned”
: I interviewed Westfall in connection with an article marking the three hundredth anniversary of the
Principia.
See Edward Dolnick, “Sir Isaac Newton,”
Boston Globe
, July 27, 1987. Westfall used the same “wholly other” phrase in the preface to
Never at Rest
, p. x, where he discussed Newton's uniqueness in a bit more detail.

320
“He cried out with admiration”
: Westfall,
Never at Rest
, p. 473.

320
His fellow professors did not know
: Ibid., p. 194.

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