TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newman,William R.
TI  - Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature's "secret fire" 
SN  - 9780691174877
AV  - QC16.N7 
U1  - 540.1/12 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Newton, Isaac,
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - Influence
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Alchimie
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Histoire
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - fast
N1  - newton the Alchemist is a tour de force proving beyond any doubt newton s extraordinary debt to chymistry  the alchemical art of analysis and synthesis AMAGNIFICENT; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - When Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts was shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment rationality, the legendary physicist suddenly became "the last of the magicians." Newton the Alchemist unlocks the secrets of Newton's alchemical quest, providing a radically new understanding of the uncommon genius who probed nature at its deepest levels in pursuit of empirical knowledge. In this evocative and superbly written book, William Newman blends in-depth analysis of newly available texts with laboratory replications of Newton's actual experiments in alchemy. He does not justify Newton's alchemical research as part of a religious search for God in the physical world, nor does he argue that Newton studied alchemy to learn about gravitational attraction. Newman traces the evolution of Newton's alchemical ideas and practices over a span of more than three decades, showing how they proved fruitful in diverse scientific fields. A precise experimenter in the realm of "chymistry," Newton put the allusive riddles of alchemy to the test in his lab. He also used ideas drawn from the alchemical texts to great effect in his optical experimentation. In his hands, alchemy was a tool for attaining the material benefits associated with the philosopher's stone and an instrument for acquiring scientific knowledge of the most sophisticated kind
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