James Gleick on Isaac Newton

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Science writer James Gleick is the author of “Isaac Newton.” His biography of the man who invented gravity, calculus and celestial mechanics, also reveals that Newton was the pre-eminent alchemist of his age and an expert Biblical scholar.  Gleick tells Steve Paulson that  Newton may have invented modern science, but he lived in a very medieval world.