Herodian Economics in Galilee. Searching for a Suitable Model

Fontenelle’s Newton and the Uses of Genius

“…Bernoulli thus counselled Fontenelle that he must be even more sceptical about Newton's apparent moral virtues: "I leave you to judge from all this whether what the English are peddling to us about the greatness of Mr. Newton's soul must be taken as current coin." 44 Castel picked up the same theme explicitly. By emptying celestial space, Newton had apparently set the planets at liberty, yet it was always necessary to be distrustful of those who proclaimed such freedom, since they too often reimposed "weighty chains of the most insupportable tyranny."…”