Isaac Newton rejected the Trinity and believed that worshipping Christ as God was idolatry. He was influenced by his readings of the Quran and works by Arian and Socinian thinkers. Newton likely believed that the Quran and these other non-Trinitarian sources provided a more logically consistent argument against the concept of the Trinity compared to a single God. He was also interested in alchemy and may have been inspired to study it based on references to turning metals into gold found in the Quran and works of Muslim philosophers.