Angier, Natalie2012-03-072012-03-072010-10-17http://hdl.handle.net/11007/783Newton was a serious alchemist, who spent night upon dawn for three decades of his life slaving over a stygian furnace in search of the power to transmute one chemical element into another.enSir Isaac NewtonPhysicistMathematicianSir Isaac, The AlchemistNewton's alchemical investigations could have helped yield his fundamental breakthroughs in optics.Article