TY - JOUR AU - Schettino, Vincenzo PY - 2017/03/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Isaac Newton and Alchemy JF - Substantia JA - Substantia VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Historical Articles DO - 10.13128/Substantia-12 UR - https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/12 SP - 69-76 AB - <p class="p1">Isaac Newton dedicated a good part of his activity to alchemical experiments. This article tries to discuss the motivations that drove Newton to spend so much of his time in the laboratory: the search for a unitary vision of the forces acting in the macrocosm and in the microcosm, the belief on a hidden<em> prisca sapientia</em> in the occult philosophy to be rediscovered with a scientific approach and the dispute with materialistic philosophy.</p><p class="p1"><a href="http://www.indiscreto.org/la-storia-newton-dellalchimia/"><img src="http://www.fupress.net/public/journals/5/CopiadiScientificLeaks_small.png" alt="" width="160" height="152"></a></p><p class="p1">An <strong><a href="http://www.indiscreto.org/la-storia-newton-dellalchimia/">educational version</a></strong>&nbsp;of this article is published in the popular magazine <a href="http://www.indiscreto.org/la-storia-newton-dellalchimia/" target="_blank"><strong>L'Indiscreto</strong></a>. &nbsp;Our motto "<strong>No walls. Just bridges"</strong> implies that <em>Substantia</em> aims at being a top level interdisciplinary scientific journal, but wants to be also an actor in <em>public engagement</em>, in the framework of the <strong>University's Third Mission</strong>. &nbsp;In other terms we want to promote "scientific leaks" (Sci-leaks).</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -