Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest minds of all-time, a rationalist who laid the foundations for many of the scientific and mathematical breakthroughs that shape the modern world. Through interviews with experts and Newton's own writings as well as those of his 17th and early 18th-century contemporaries, this documentary reveals him to be an often divisive and solitary figure who also dabbled in heretical religion, alchemy and the occult.