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Re: VMs: Newton code - answer
Oops here is a Yahoo consideration about Newton and codes:
It s true otherwise that I.N. s interest in alchemy was a deep one. For instance
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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