The Occult Studies of Isaac Newton

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    The Occult Studies of Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation united the heavens with the earth
    Newton proposed that white light was the combination of all colors

     had a fascination with alchemy and wanted to find the philosophers stone and the elixir of life 1
  • Isaac Newton was deeply influenced by Rosicrucianism2
  • #todo read newtons entry in The Alchemy reader

References

    1.  "Newton's manuscripts provide evidence that he gave considerable thought to alchemy as emblematic of a purely scientific explanation of nature and was in fact deeply involved in conceiving alchemy as spiritual." F. Calian, "Some Modern Controversies on the Historiography of Alchemy" in Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU (2010), 186.

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    1.  White, Michael (1999). Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer. Da Capo Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-7382-0143-6. Retrieved 25 June 2008.

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