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Newton was a complex person and I think this is an overly reductive take on both his life and study of alchemy.

• heavenlyblue 4y ago
  Is the next thing you are going to say that it's an overly reductive take on the alchemy as described in The Bible?
  • batch12 4y ago
    Where is this description? I am having a difficult time finding a reference to performing alchemy in the Bible.
    • h2odragon 4y ago
      That was one of the things that made alchemy so much fun; all the "instructions" were "encoded" and literally occult. Much of what they were doing was hunting for the keys to a known ciphertext (the Bible) that would give them the secrets of the universe, once they decoded it correctly. Of course we're far too bright and sophisticated to fall into such folly today. You won't fond modern peoples, for example, having passionate arguments about the meanings of text generated by mechanical / statistical processes.
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