even more about Newton

The book about Isaac Newton arrived and I am well into it. I am finding the story of the development of Calculus far more interesting than Calculus. I remember Carl Sagan saying that learning about astronomy and looking through powerful telescopes made him more spiritual, like looking towards God. Isaac Newton felt the same about math. He felt that the mathematical symmetry of the universe was perfect and perfectly beautiful and that it explained everything. Math, he felt, was the secret to the universe, it's code so to speak. It was a spiritual journey for him. And he never left a 100 miles radius his whole life. He never saw the ocean. He figured out that white light was made up of all of the colors of the rainbow, he figured out the tides, but he never saw the ocean. It really shows the expansiveness of the mind, to think that his mind could know so much having explored so little of the world. It's all so consistent and right there if we just are willing to see it. The same truth is in the grain of sand, that's in the movements of a fish, that's in a leaf or a tree, that's in the sunset, the small or the large, it's all just right there, it seems. It also seems that those people who were into alchemy were also really into Calculus, which is how it is for the character in my book, so I am glad that is consistent. They seemed to go together in my heart and mind, and it looks as though they do historically as well... phew...