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"The physical death of his mother in 1679 may have had fewer psychic consequences than the original lapse in the mystical union of mother and
child. Her death may even have been in some form a release for Newton, for it was in the early 1680's that, with Halley's aid, the Principia was put into final shape during a period of prodigious creativity."
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"The physical death of his mother in 1679 may have had fewer psychic consequences than the original lapse in the mystical union of mother and
child. Her death may even have been in some form a release for Newton, for it was in the early 1680's that, with Halley's aid, the Principia was put into final shape during a period of prodigious creativity."
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