Newton spent most of his life pursuing alchemy, and not because he was a great chemist. He spent much of his life broke and whoever could find the Philosopher’s Stone would be rich.

Newton's major source in alchemy, George Starkey, shared this theory. Michael Maier is a famous writer of the early 17th century who tried to decipher as much Greek mythology as he could get his ...

Newton's Alchemy. By Bill Newman; Posted 11.15.05; NOVA; Historian of science Bill Newman says that Isaac Newton's alchemical notebooks are like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle.

"Newton was intensely interested in alchemy almost his whole life," James Voelkel, curator of rare books at the foundation's Othmer Library of Chemical History, told the Washington Post.

Researchers have discovered a long lost collection of notes by 17th century English physicist Sir Isaac Newton. Newton's Lost Notes on Alchemy Are Found - Los Angeles Times ...

Distancing Newton's legacy from alchemy continued for hundreds of years. In 1888, the University of Cambridge declined to archive the alchemy texts and they were later sold at private auction, ...

Almost overnight, the perception of alchemy became conflated with an unforgiving view of the protoscientific world as one populated by mystics and superstitious fools. As for Isaac Newton’s prized ...

A 17th-century manuscript written by Sir Isaac Newton that was held in a private collection for decades is being ... who wrote an estimated 1,000,000 words of notes on alchemy during his ...

For Newton, alchemy may also have proved bigger than chemistry. Dr. Newman argues that Sir Isaac’s alchemical investigations helped yield one of his fundamental breakthroughs in physics: his ...

One of Isaac Newton's 17th-century alchemy manuscripts, buried in a private collection for decades, reveals his recipe for a material thought to be a step toward concocting the magical philosopher ...