Sir Isaac Newton: Metaphors in Alchemy

Sir Isaac Newton was a great mathematician and English physicist. He was a genius and did not like to waste his time. He was not only the creator of universal laws of motion and gravitational attraction, formulator of an equation to plot the trajectories, inventor of calculus and discovered spectral properties of light but also he was a serious alchemist (Angier, p.1). He spent three decades as a slave over a stygian furnace to explore the power in order to transmute one chemical element into other. His interest in the field of alchemy was known, but his moonlight enterprise became clear lately. Science historians analyzed the alchemy writings of Newton and then published them after analyzing. His desire was to transmute the lead into gold (Angier, p.1).