Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers

Posted by Zonk on Saturday July 2, 2005 @06:20PM from the it's-in-a-book-reading-rainbow dept.

Quirk writes "The Royal Society has a story on a Lost Newton manuscript rediscovered. From the article: 'The notes are written about alchemy, which some scientists in Newton's time believed to hold the secret for transforming base metals, such as lead, into the more precious metals of gold or silver...The notes reflect a part of Newton's life which he kept hidden from public scrutiny during his lifetime, in part because the making of gold or silver was a felony and had been since a law was passed by Henry IV in 1404.'"

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Re:Important Question... by koreaman · 2005-07-02 20:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

He thinks we should all go live in a lame but fully libertarian society where all we can do to escape the madness is dick around in an alternate online reality, getting infected by viruses along the way.

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[OT] by dephiance · 2005-07-02 20:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is Zonk the weekend publisher?