Morning reading: Context is everything. We think of Newton as a scientist. But the scientific method had not yet been invented. [[John Maynard Keynes]] who collected alchemy papers concluded:
> Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians…
_He poked a needle in his eye socket. He stared at the sun, reflected in a mirror, for so long he temporarily blinded himself._
Source: https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/newtons-eccentric-experiments
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