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. So in ...

The revelation that Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest scientist of all time, practiced the covert art of alchemy may shock us today, but was this pursuit considered deviant in Newton's own era?

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 ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton believed that lozenges made of toad vomit could cure the bubonic plague. "The best is a toad suspended by the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Combine one part Fiery Dragon, some Doves of Diana, and at least seven Eagles of mercury, and what do you get? A key precursor to the Philosopher’s stone, according to a rediscovered manuscript ...

PHILADELPHIA, April 8 (UPI) --A manuscript by Isaac Newton containing a recipe for a key ingredient in the mythical Philosopher's stone, a substance practitioners of alchemy thought could turn ...

Newton’s dabblings in alchemy are well known, but his belief that he had found the closely guarded blueprint for the Philosophers’ Stone was astonishing indeed. Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle's Pursuit ...

Researchers have discovered a long lost collection of notes by 17th century English physicist Sir Isaac Newton. The notes on alchemy were originally discovered after Newton’s death in 1727 but ...

Modern scholars continue to revisit Newton’s work on alchemy and reconsider its place in the history of science. Alchemists made legit scientific discoveries. During the 18th century ...