ABSTRACT
Two of the keenest English minds that shaped the intellectual climate of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were Isaac Newton (1642-1727) and John Locke (1632-1704). Whereas Newton the mathematician could be said to have created experimental physics and the eighteenth-century ‘disenchantment of the world’, Locke the physician, political theorist and philosopher created the experimental physics of the soul, and the ‘disenchantment of the human world’.1
