English alchemists

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)

16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist

12th-century English natural philosopher

English antiquarian, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and alchemist (1617-1692)

English alchemist

English ornithologist and ichthyologist

English courtier and diplomat (1603–1665)

English aristocrat (1564-1632)

English scientist

canon, author, alchemist

English courtier and poet

Early Colonial American alchemist

British writer

English physician and alchemist (1579-1651)

English priest and astrologer

English chemist and alchemist

Catholic cardinal

English poet and alchemist

German rabbi

alchemist and translator

French chemist

English alchemist