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The Janus Faces of Genius

The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought

by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs

Dobbs's influential study of Isaac Newton's alchemy, including his translation of the Emerald Tablet, arguing that alchemy was central to his religious and natural philosophy.

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