Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

00:00:14 'I do not know what I may appear to the world

00:02:27 There is a vital agent, diffuse through everything in the earth

00:05:23 Newton grew up in tune with the Protestant spirit of the age

00:07:44 Light, space and time

00:10:23 that he was destined to be the person to reform natural philosophy.

00:12:39 In a few hours time, I had brought my eyes to such a pass

00:15:18 how much petrol is being injected into the engine -

00:17:37 White is a mixture.

00:20:16 ten-times the length.

00:22:50 if not the most considerable detection which has been made

00:25:18 His deepest instincts were profound shrinking from the world

00:27:52 He was the last of the magicians

00:30:19 He was also following a mystical quest

00:32:45 His intuition led him to describe a seemingly magical transformation

00:35:22 with a chance visit from Edmund Halley

00:38:01 The result was a mathematical way to predict how forces affect movement -

00:40:54 carving the earth as it flows.

00:43:30 Comets and eclipses were no longer omens of doom.

00:46:09 Hooke's reputation never recovered.

00:48:48 it does coincide with a period

00:51:22 as Warden of the Mint at the Tower of London.

00:53:53 who was intent only on getting idolaters

00:56:34 Whenever they found anything to do with alchemy or religion

01:09:03 the economist John Maynard Keynes