Catalogue Entry: ALCH00025

Three alchemical excerpts (1668/9).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in Latin , c. 4,000 words, 8 pp. on 4 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 36, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Keynes for £13.10s.

Sotheby Lot

SL51

Contents

'De Metallorum Metamorphosi' (f. 1r), divided into a preface and chapters; 'Brevis Manuductio ad rubinum cœlestem' (f. 3r); 'Fons Chemicæ Philosophiæ' (f. 3v).

Related Material

Taken from Martinus Birrius, Tres Tractatus De Metallorum Transmutatione [...] incognita auctore (Amsterdam 1668: H1641), containing these three compositions, which are in fact by 'Eirenæus Philalethes' (i.e. George Starkey). See Dobbs, Foundations, 131-2.