Catalogue Entry: ALCH00134

'Notes upon ye working of ---': an account of a purification of vitriol, which took 6 months to accomplish.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Davis & Orioli for £5.

Sotheby Lot

SL115

Contents

On the reverse: seven 'Quares' [leg. 'Quæres'?], and notes of various sums owing to Newton, dated 1673-77.

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