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 ...

The manuscript contains extracts from Newton's favorite alchemist, the American writer George Starkey (1628-1665). Starkey's Marrow of Alchemy (1654-5), the work Newton cites here, was published ...

Modern scholars continue to revisit Newton’s work on alchemy and reconsider its place in the history of science. Alchemists ...

Francis Spufford has written a Narnia novel.He started it to entertain his daughter on a family vacation and has been working on it for the past three and a half years. He doesn’t expect it to ...

While most famous for his Principia, his work on light and colour, and his discovery of the calculus, Newton devoted much more time to research in chemistry and alchemy, and to studying prophecy, ...

Newton was skilled in many sciences, fluent in mathematics, natural science, theology, mechanics, alchemy, and other fields ...