Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex—pretty much every theme that runs through ...
QUESTION: Why was antimony so prized by alchemists? Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the towering genius of the Scientific Revolution, was dubbed ‘the last of the magicians’ by John Maynard Keynes. It is ...