Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books)

Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books)

Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled in the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White’s Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of a genius who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began.Science writer Michael White’s subtitle, The Last Sorcerer, echoes John Maynard Keynes’s assertion in 1942 that Isaac Newton (1642-1727)$ 4.79