Today’s featured entry from the Vatican Observatory Faith and Science pages:
“Isaac Newton – God and the Universe in the ‘General Scholium’ of the Principia” (CLICK HERE for it)
Isaac Newton is arguably the most important scientist of all. His Principia Mathematica, in which he develops a physics of the solar system to compete with the “vortex theory” of René Descartes, is arguably his most important work, for it developed the physics still taught in classrooms and used in science and engineering today. Newton sees in this physics and in the solar system the action of God.
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