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76.

'Notes out of Philalethes'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: M132/2/6, Stanford University Library, Stanford, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00102

77.

Six sets of notes on Newton's alchemical reading (c. late 1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Mellon Alchemical Mss Mellon Ms. 78, Mellon Alchemical Mss, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00111

78.

'Praxis' (certainly after 1689, probably c. 1696): an alchemical treatise, with notes and an earlier draft.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 420, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00094

79.

Chemical notes, partly in another hand.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1007 B, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00077

80.

Two alchemical treatises (one incomplete; after 1686) and a collection of short extracts from various alchemical sources.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 48, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00037

81.

Incomplete draft treatise on the sequence of operations to be effected in transmutation.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 40, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00029

82.

'Index Chemicus'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00108

83.

Notes 'Ex Rosario Magno', 2 pp. on.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 415, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00089

84.

Miscellaneous alchemical recipes, including one to turn lead into mercury by mixing it with corn and olive oil over a moderate heat.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: B MS c 41 c), Edwin Newton Ohl Collection, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston Medical Library, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00067

85.

Chapter XXV

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00086

86.

'Ex Turba Philosophorum'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00123

87.

'Anno 1656. Serenissimi Principis Frederici Ducis Holsatiæ et Sleswici &c. communicatione sequens epistola me sibi vendicat, inaudita memorans. Veni et vide'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 24, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00013

88.

Chapter Two: Servant of God

Author: John T. Young

Source: Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle (Aldershot: 1998).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00059

89.

Two unrelated tracts in the same hand (not Newton's)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 91, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00057

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