Magic or Science?

With chemistry week sadly fizzling to an end, I came across this site all about the 'darker' side of Sir Isaac Newton. A brilliant mathematician and physicist, did you know he was also into alchemy? In fact during this period in history he was not the only scientist in pursuit of making gold from other chemicals, Robert Boyle, John Locke, Leibniz and many others were trying. Read an interview with Historian Bill Newton on Newton's alchemy on this link. Also have a look at this nice flash site that decodes Newton's notebooks. I wish I had a similar tool for Zak's physics homework.