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Re: Upcoming 200th anniversary of...guess which novel?

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"William Hyde"  wrote

> Right.  I forget who it was couldn't attend either University
> because he was a Unitarian.  Could it have been Isaac Newton?

>Newton went to Trinity college, Cambridge.  He was upper class (from new 
>money on his father's side, old money from his mother's) and the family was 
>respectably Anglican. His stepfather and uncle were Anglican priests.

>At some point Newton concluded that the Trinity had no biblical 
>justification, and that Christ was a created being, not in any sense  God. 
>He described himself as an Arian - but privately.

>This was a problem when he was offered the Lucasian Professorship, as all 
>professors had to swear an oath of belief in the 39 articles.  Newton 
>didn't believe in a number of these.

>Somehow this issue was finessed, Newton did not swear the oath (but did not 
>publicly assert his views) and got the position.  My reading and the 
>wikipedia account of this do not agree, but perhaps that's my bad memory.

He would also have had to swear to become an MP and Master of the Mint. But 
perhaps these were just Church of England membership oaths. Don't know what 
the Scots had to swear to.

-- 
Mike D 

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