larger becomes the sphere of knowledge, the greater grows its area of contact with the unknown.
Newton's dynamics and astronomy involve the ideas of absolute space and time,though we can see now,in our era of relativity,that those ideas do not necessarily follow from the phenomena. Newton also, like Galileo,accepted the atomic theory; though the time had not yet com to put it in the definite numerical form framed by Dalton a century later. The work of Galileo and Newton, which went so far to express dynamical and even some physical phenomena in terms of time, space and moving particles of matter,undoubtedly suggested, when translated into philosophy,a mechanical or materialist creed, and, as we shall see later, this was its outcome in the eighteenth century, especially in france, where it helped forward first deism and then atheism. But to Newton and his contemporaries that conclusion would have been quite foreign.