One of the key early scenes in my novel "The Secret Fire" is a 1936 auction at Sotheby's in London of a vast collection of unpublished manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, many of them focusing on two topics Newton preferred to keep secret during his lifetime: his unorthodox religious views, and his extensive research into alchemy. [UPDATE: I see Dan Brown refers to these papers too, in his new novel "The Lost Symbol".]
In "The Secret Fire," the auction leads to a grisly end for a hapless...
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