{"id":376,"date":"2017-07-06T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theperihelioneffect.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2018-05-23T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T00:32:13","slug":"alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theperihelioneffect.com\/alchemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Isaac Newton was an alchemist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span id=\"Alchemical_research\" class=\"mw-headline\">Alchemical research<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Much of what are known as Isaac Newton&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Occult\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occult\">occult studies<\/a>\u00a0can largely be attributed to his study of alchemy.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Newton was deeply interested in all forms of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Natural sciences\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_sciences\">natural sciences<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Materials science\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Materials_science\">materials science<\/a>, an interest which would ultimately lead to some of his better-known contributions to science. During Newton&#8217;s lifetime, the study of\u00a0<a title=\"Chemistry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemistry\">chemistry<\/a>\u00a0was still in its infancy, so many of his experimental studies used esoteric language and vague terminology more typically associated with alchemy and occultism.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0It was not until several decades after Newton&#8217;s death that experiments of\u00a0<a title=\"Stoichiometry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stoichiometry\">stoichiometry<\/a>\u00a0under the pioneering works of\u00a0<a title=\"Antoine Lavoisier\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antoine_Lavoisier\">Antoine Lavoisier<\/a>\u00a0were conducted, and analytical chemistry, with its associated nomenclature, came to resemble modern chemistry as we know it today. However, Newton&#8217;s contemporary and fellow Royal Society member,\u00a0<a title=\"Robert Boyle\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Boyle\">Robert Boyle<\/a>, had already discovered the basic concepts of modern chemistry and began establishing modern norms of experimental practice and communication in chemistry, information which Newton did not use.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Newton&#8217;s writing on alchemy may have been lost in a fire in his laboratory, so the true extent of his work in this area may have been larger than is currently known. Newton also suffered a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Nervous breakdown\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nervous_breakdown\">nervous breakdown<\/a>\u00a0during his period of alchemical work, possibly due to some form of chemical poisoning (possibly from\u00a0<a title=\"Mercury (element)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury_(element)\">mercury<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Lead\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lead\">lead<\/a>, or some other substance).<sup id=\"cite_ref-Nova_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies#cite_note-Nova-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alchemical research Much of what are known as Isaac Newton&#8217;s\u00a0occult studies\u00a0can largely be attributed to his study of alchemy.[2]\u00a0Newton was deeply interested in all forms of\u00a0natural sciences\u00a0and\u00a0materials science, an interest which would ultimately lead to some of his better-known contributions to science. During Newton&#8217;s lifetime, the study of\u00a0chemistry\u00a0was still in its infancy, so many of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/theperihelioneffect.com\/alchemy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sir Isaac Newton was an alchemist<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sir Isaac Newton was an alchemist - The Perihelion Effect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theperihelioneffect.com\/alchemy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sir Isaac Newton was an alchemist - The Perihelion Effect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alchemical research Much of what are known as Isaac Newton&#8217;s\u00a0occult studies\u00a0can largely be attributed to his study of alchemy.[2]\u00a0Newton was deeply interested in all forms of\u00a0natural sciences\u00a0and\u00a0materials science, an interest which would ultimately lead to some of his better-known contributions to science. 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