M.F. Lomax asks questions about the nebuar hypothesis proposed in William Whewell’s Bridgwater treatise. He also enquires as to whether or not Sir Isaac Newton was a Unitarian, writing: ‘they see no difference between Newton and Voltaire and Laplace (not that they know any more than their names) and class them altogether as a set of clever learned infidels’.

A page from the journal of Ann Walker. After visitng his château at Ferney, she questions ‘if Voltaire was in reality what the world represents him (an Infidel,) is it not singular that he should have built a Church for the worship of God?’