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NEWTON'S habit of transcribing passages from the writings of others has misled some writers into regarding him as something of an alchemist. Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade now concludes (Proc. Phys. Soc., 55, 426; 1943) that the same habit has misled those authors who have regarded Newton as something of a poet. When he was a boy, Newton apparently drew a picture of Charles I and wrote some verses underneath. Mrs. Vincent of Grantham repeated them by memory to Stukeley, who adds, "She fancyed, and aver'd it that he composed them himself. I rather suppose he copyed the print prefixed to the Eikon basilice". Prof. Andrade reproduces the verses from the "Eikon basilice".
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Newton's Verses. Nature 153, 105 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153105d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153105d0