Drawing on mysticism and the new language of science, a generation of charismatic performers and con artists became ...

The line between science and magic can be difficult to draw. Early chemical experimentation bore the name “alchemy.” Its practitioners—among them, Isaac Newton—were eager not only to break ...

‘Historians of alchemy’, wrote Herbert Butterfield in 1949, ‘seem to become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe.’ Seventy years on, readers may believe that this gloriously rude ...

When Isaac Newton’s alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment ...

The Compasses, a dingy pothouse in High Wycombe, was not the most likely place to encounter John Milton, Isaac Newton or Benjamin Franklin. Yet it was here, in March 1794, that Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

Sir Isaac Newtons beer mug offers key clues about his work. Sir Issac Newton, best known for formulating the laws of motion and gravity, wrote about his revolutionary findings using homemade ink ...

Sir Isaac Newton wrote his theory of gravity in a home-made ink created with beer as a key ingredient, a study suggests. The physicist published his theory of calculus, his three eponymous laws of ...

When Anjana Ahuja referred to Isaac Newton in her article on Elon Musk allegedly breaching the code of conduct of the UK’s Royal Society (“Musk is the fox in the henhouse of science ...