In his well-known and influential essay, The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities, Isaiah Berlin argues that although there have always been disputes about method and distinctions with regard to these spheres of knowledge (Berlin effectively discards the common notion of ‘two cultures’), it was only in the eighteenth century that there emerged a ‘sense of contrast’ between the two. Berlin concludes that ‘the great cleavage between the provinces of natural science and the humanities was, for the first time, made, or revealed, for better or for worse, by Giambattista Vico. Thereby he started a great debate of which the end is not in sight.’ Similarly, in his Newtonian Studies, Alexander Koyré touches upon the same problem, and points to Newton as the culprit responsible for ‘the splitting of our world in two’.