Article ID: CBB730185488

Isaac Newton and Alchemy (2017)

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Isaac Newton dedicated a good part of his activity to alchemical experiments. This article tries to discuss the motivations that drove Newton to spend so much of his time in the laboratory: the search for a unitary vision of the forces acting in the macrocosm and in the microcosm, the belief on a hidden "prisca sapientia" in the occult philosophy to be rediscovered with a scientific approach and the dispute with materialistic philosophy.

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Authors & Contributors
Guicciardini, Niccolò
Casini, Paolo
Chalmers, Alan Francis
Zemplén, Gábor Á.
Yuan, Jiangyang
Smith, George E.
Concepts
Experiments and experimentation
Natural philosophy
Physics
Alchemy
Science and religion
Newtonianism
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Places
England
Europe
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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