One of the fathers of scientific thought in fact devoted twenty years' study of magic. As demonstrated by a new biography and cards to buy 'auction by' economist Keynes: "The way NEWTON-alchemical law of gravity" "Newton was not the first scientist of the 'age of reason. Rather it was the 'last of the magicians, the' last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the 'last great mind capable of seeing through the eyes of those who began to build our intellectual property less than ten thousand years ago, "he said in 1942 famous economist John Maynard Keynes, after awarded to 's house Sotheby' s a trunk of papers belonging to Isaac Newton (1642-1727), considered by most of "no scientific relevance."
cards Keynes raised the question: was there or not fertilization between the studies of alchemy and the scientific genius of Woolsthorpe? The issue is far from 'be resolved, not least because Newton left behind a million words on' chemistry, a great deal of material largely drawn up in code. The discoverer of universal gravitation, however, the central figure of that 'scientific enlightenment that obscured any propensity toward the magical arts, came to those results "immerse" in them: the said Michael White, author and science writer for The Sunday Times as well as the biographer of Leonardo and Stephen Hawking, in a new biography of Newton. L 'author claims that he came "to the theory of universal gravitation thanks to the alchemic' to which he devoted himself with obsessive determination (but with a lot of restraint because of the public roles and academics that covered) in the seventies and eighties of the century. Today, c 'is a renewed interest in the' chemistry such as the new studies, the rediscovery of forgotten authors, running to rare manuscripts. More than in an irrational fashion as opposed to scientism, the reasons for the phenomenon are perhaps in the very nature of a discipline that combines the practicality empirical research to philosophical and spiritual in the middle of the "dictatorship of the art ', as would Emanuele Severino, can not fail to fascinate a discipline that combined the technology (the 'use of retorts, stills, ovens, ATANOR) to an' ideology where the research had the purpose of healing and spiritual development. Mircea Eliade wrote, "While the yogi works with the mind stream on your body to achieve the transformation of himself, the 'torture metal alchemist who focuses on the material to purify it, but in both cases the end is to realize the 'independence of spirit from matter. "
And Newton was attracted by his 'spiritual aspect of that' art. A follower of the 'Arian heresy, the scientist was pervaded by a strong religious spirit: in opposition to the doctrine of the Trinity put Christ "somewhere between God and' man ', the mediator of all the actions of' universe, including gravity. The ongoing quest for a unified theory that would lead to the complete model of the 'universe, Newton thought that the scientific insights and mathematical calculations would not have been the ultimate truth: there it is then add to' rational inquiry and biblical studies religious speculation, but especially the 'alchemy, he believed the result of the prisca theology, ancient knowledge from China, the Arabs, from' Renaissance Hermeticism Alexandria and then, according to which the transmutations produced in the crucible reflected the phenomena of 'universe.
Newton applied himself to 'alchemy with passion and rigorous method: put together an extraordinary library, cataloged the items and steps dell' Opera, carefully pinned reactions, secretly comparing the results with other followers of 'Ars Magna. According to White, the theory of gravity (alchemical thought before the period, but shown in Principia of 1687), "he was partly inspired by the work in the field of 'alchemy'. The alchemists were very interested to 'antimony, a substance which, when purified, showed similarities with the' gold, said it formed an amalgam crystalline regulus (little king), similar to a star with rays of light, or lines of force, converging toward the center. According to White, the experiments on the regular star (1670), were "an unconscious contribution to the slow process during which Newton including the first 'and then the gravitational attraction." Convinced of the correspondence between micro-and macrocosm, Newton could see the star Regulus in the center of the Sun and, in the converging lines, the forces that attract the planets.
The same continuous changes in the crucible of the substances suggested the concept of "attraction" and "revulsion" caused by active substances, ie, by 'one Spirit at work in the' universe. In his Introduction to 'alchemy, Zolla Elémire wrote that "a subtle sensitivity made by the practice of alchemy will see the' unity of the world, the 'essence of all that binds." The alchemical laboratory may, therefore, have sharpened the sensitivity of Newton up to show him, by analogy, the force that binds the corpses in the 'universe; strength in his religious feelings, could only be divine. The book, "Newton" Michael White, Rizzoli, 519 pages). It all began with an apple fall to the ground ... 1642 Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire in 1665. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge 1665-1666. For two years, following a 'plague, took refuge in his mother's home where he devoted himself to studies of light and colors as well as on chemistry and metallurgy. This period 's episode of the fall of the apple. 1669 - happens to his teacher, Isaac Barlow, professor of mathematics at Cambridge in 1672-was appointed, following the completion of its first reflecting telescope, a member of the Royal Society. 1687 - Public Philosophiae Naturalis Principia mathematics, considered by many "the greatest scientific work of all time '; 1700 - He was appointed Director of the Mint, 1703 - Appointed president of the Royal Society, 1727 - died in Kensington, near London.
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