#15: Isaac Newton’s Secret Pursuit of Alchemy
The apple is neat, familiar, and probably too tidy. It presents Isaac Newton as the perfect modern scientist, observing an ordinary event and calmly deriving a universal law from it. The papers he left behind reveal a mind that did not divide knowledge into the categories used today. Alongside mathematics, optics, and celestial mechanics, Newton devoted years to alchemy, biblical chronology, theology, and the interpretation of ancient texts.
