[extropy-chat] Standing on Giants

[Amara Graps]

Here is one article (with references) about Isaac Newton's life.

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/01-Courses/current-courses/08sr-newton.htm

And here are some interesting side stories about his alchemical work

http://www.indiana.edu/~college/WilliamNewmanProject.shtml

by the same researcher, William Newman, who wrote _Promothean Ambitions_,
which I've discussed here a few times:

http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2005-February/013649.html

_Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature_
Nonfiction. By William R. Newman. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Amara
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