Newton, Isaac

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Newton believed that lead and iron matured into gold and silver; that veins of metals were akin to roots and branches.

Do metals show signs of life? Or are the characteristics of ‘life’ not exclusive to ‘life’?

Notes from a presentation by William Newman of Indiana University

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