Original sentence: In this sense, some have commented that the common reference to the "Newtonian Worldview" as being purely mechanistic is somewhat misguided.John Maynard Keynes, for example, opined in 1942 after purchasing and studying Newton's alchemical works that "Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.Newton's scientific work may have been of lesser personal importance to him, as he placed emphasis on rediscovering the occult wisdom of the ancients
Edited sentence: " -- John Maynard Keynes."Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.In this sense, the common reference to the "Newtonian Worldview" as purely mechanistic is somewhat misguided, as John Maynard Keynes observed in 1942 after purchasing and studying Newton's alchemical works:.It is, however, somewhat anachronistic to assume that the importance he attached to these is closely connected to contemporary attitudes.The work modern observers would call scientific were perhaps to him of lesser importance; Newton was a product of his time in that he still placed emphasis on rediscovering the occult wisdom of the ancients