Conversations with Isaac Newton by Michael White

Author:Michael White
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786784223
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2020-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

And you could not contemplate this because of your unorthodox views on the Trinity?

Precisely. I could not in all honesty swear to accept the conventional idea of the Trinity. It was Isaac Barrow who saved my career. By then he was the King’s Chaplain. He managed to convince Charles to make all holders of the Lucasian Chair exempt from the requirement of taking Holy Orders.

It must have been quite an accomplishment on Barrow’s part because, presumably, you could tell no one of your reasons for not wanting to take Holy Orders.

Naturally. I couldn’t even tell Barrow. He acted entirely out of a desire not to lose me. If he had failed, I would have resigned my chair and the course of my career would have been very different indeed.

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