“Alchemy tradeth not with metals as ignorant vulgars may think,” wrote Isaac Newton from London after the plague in 1666. He further emphasized that “This Philosophy is not of that kind which tendeth to vanity & deceipt [sic] but rather to profit and edification inducing first the knowledge of God.” [italics added].
“The vital agent diffused through everything in the earth is one and the same.”
“At the Sign of the
Pelican in Little Britain….”
Ieova sanctus unus
Pseudonym used by Isaac Newton (Isaacus Nevtonus) for his
alchemical work.
“In re-creating the substance of the world and producing gold, the alchemist was re-creating himself in the image of the godhead.” - Peter Ackroyd, Ackroyd’s Brief Lives – Newton; Doubleday, 2006.
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