Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World. Here are three: 1. It's one thing to dislike the arts, but Newton's disdain for them was ironically an art itself. As Dolnick ...

He also studied the forbidden art of alchemy. Newton was a deeply ... to resign his chair rather than swear a false oath. Isaac Barrow, Newton’s mentor and first Lucasian Professor at Cambridge ...

The revelation that Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest scientist of all time, practiced the covert art of alchemy may shock us today, but was this pursuit considered deviant in Newton's own era?

"I'm calling it Newton's Gold." Sir Isaac was said to have been inspired ... way of engaging people in the natural world through art and performance." ...