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| | Newton's Alchemy, recreated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | 3 : "Alchemy is the science by which the principles, causes, properties, and passions of all the metals are known radically, so that those of them which are imperfect, incomplete, mixed, and corrupt may be transmuted into genuine gold." Petrus Bonus, 14th century. |
 | | William Newman, professor of History and Philosophy of Science: I am at present deciphering Isaac Newton's chymical laboratory notebooks and manuscripts, the subject of a forthcoming BBC/NOVA documentary, much of which was filmed at IU. |
 | | Newton spent some thirty years working on chymistry, and yet the goals of his project and their relationship to his physics and religion remain obscure. |
| www.indiana.edu /~college/WilliamNewmanProject.shtml (1708 words) |
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