Historian of science Bill Newman says that Isaac Newton's alchemical notebooks are ... To orient yourself to the bewildering world of 17th-century alchemy, we recommend you first read our ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... He became absorbed in alchemy, a secretive study of the nature of life and the medieval forerunner of chemistry. Some argue that ...

He would visit Trinity College to see if the secretive Isaac Newton could shed some light on the matter. Newton was living an even more isolated existence than before. Some years earlier his ...

What we didn’t know was who was the author of the fiction: nobody less than Sir Isaac himself. “He invented this story to cover up the true line of occult rationality which he used to arrive at the ...

Sir Isaac Newton was on a lifelong quest to discover ... he was also ardently passionate about subjects like chemistry, religion, and alchemy. He based his 2060 doomsday forecast on a Protestant ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...