Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature’s ‘secret fire’: by William R. Newman, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2019, xx + 537 pp., 10 colour + 40 black & white plts, $39.95 (hardcover); £34.00, ISBN 978-0-691-17487-7

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