Catalogue Entry: ALCH00036

'Experimenta Raymundi', 6 pp.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 47, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £10.10s. and sold to Keynes on 19 August 1936 for the sale price plus 20%.

Sotheby Lot

SL80

Contents

Descriptions of and notes on 24 experiments, interspersed with alchemical recipes, drawn from the works of (or supposedly of) Ramón Lull [Raimundus Lullius].

See H994-1001 for Newton's Lull collection.

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