A closer look
Isaac Newton is widely celebrated for discovering gravity and inventing calculus, but he actually wrote more than a million words on the secretive, mystical art of alchemy, frantically trying to discover the Philosopher's Stone. He secretly spent decades boiling toxic metals in his laboratory, attempting to turn lead into gold and unlock the elixir of eternal life, which resulted in him suffering massive mercury poisoning. Historians have analyzed his hair and found astronomical levels of mercury, which perfectly explains why the father of modern physics suffered from severe paranoid breakdowns and thought he was personally chosen by God to decode the hidden, magical prophecies buried in the architectural blueprints of King Solomon's Temple
