Presentation blog post, #3

My presentation on superstition covered so much ground that I couldn’t spend enough time on certain subjects. I breezed over alchemy and didn’t do it justice, so here’s a really informative, easy-to-read interview with Bill Newman, an historian of science at Indiana University who spent years deciphering Sir Isaac Newton's secret coded recipes:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/newton-alchemist-newman.html