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Rob Iliffe. Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 536 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-999535-6.
Reviewed by Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambirdge) Published on H-Albion (December, 2018) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer College)
