VMs: Newton code - answer

["PK#01" <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, should have looked in Google first:

Most of all, he spent untold hours hunched over bubbling retorts of mercury,
lead, antimony and sulfur (a practice that may have damaged his health). The
results were noted in a kind of code. One entry in Newton's notebooks, for
example, reports, "I made Jupiter fly on the wings of the eagle!" which
apparently had something to do with vaporizing tin.

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues00/dec00/newton.html

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