Through such arcane studies as the Star Regulus of Antimony, a crystal used in alchemy, and the design of Solomon's temple, White argues, Newton obtained visual analogies to gravity, the mysterious attraction all matter has to other matter.
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About 1741 he wrote : " As there are six kinds of metals, so I have also shown with reliable experiments . . . that there are also six kinds of half-metals : a new half-metal, namely Cobalt regulus in addition to Mercury, Bismuth, Zinc, and the reguluses of Antimony and Arsenic ".