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After purchasing and studying Newton's alchemical works in 1942, economist John Maynard Keynes, for example, opined that " Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians ".

In the pre-Modern Era of Newton's lifetime, the educated embraced a world view different from that of later centuries.

Distinctions between science, superstition, and pseudoscience were still being formulated, and a devoutly Christian Biblical perspective permeated Western culture.