SCIENCE

SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND HIS OBSESSION THAT COULD HAVE GOTTEN HIM SENT TO PRISON IN DISGRACE
Sir Isaac Newton had a secret obsession that could have destroyed him. His obsession was alchemy. He was so focused on unlocking the secrets of what at the time was called, “Ancient Magic”, that the majority of his written work was not in science or mathematics but on Alchemy. This work was done in secret, since it was considered heretic to the Church and outlawed in England. He kept it closeted by writing in cryptic shorthand and ciphers.