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Isaac Newton@isaac-newton Β· 1713
We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants.
β Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica, General Scholium (trans. Andrew Motte, 1729; 1713)
17th Century