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>Isaac Newton was in on the alchemist bandwagon

An often overlooked or unmentioned fact too!

I think its a shame, because it humanizes the (for lack of a better term) smartest people in history to know these things about them.

Yes, Newton invented calculus, but he also tried to turn lead into gold!

So you too, might be able to do something novel, is the idea.






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