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51.

Chapter One: Servant of the Church

Author: John T. Young

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

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00058

52.

'Causæ et initia naturalium' (notes on Jan Baptista van Helmont's Ortus medicinae (1667)).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 16, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00005

53.

'The Three Fires'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 46, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00035

54.

Abstracts of five works by Michael Maier (early 1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 32, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00021

55.

Miscellaneous collection of mostly unpublished alchemical texts, recipes, reports of experiments, etc. (1660s). In English and Latin, in four different hands, none of them Newton's, though there are a few additions by him.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 67, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00056

56.

Draft alchemical treatise or compilation.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1070 A, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00084

57.

'Out of Schroderus Pharmacopia'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00130

58.

'Experimenta Raymundi', 6 pp.

Author: Isaac Newton

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

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00036

59.

'To make Lucatello's Balsome': a medical recipe, efficacious against 'ye Measell Plague or Small Pox [...] & against poyson & ye biting of a mad dog'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: M132/2/5, Stanford University Library, Stanford, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00101

60.

Draft letter or memo (1669?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 433, 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: ALCH00096

61.

'De Mineralibus': notes on Geber, Basil Valentine, Paracelsus and other alchemical writers.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: 'Estates of Mind', Great Neck, New York, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00072

62.

Chapter Three: An Intelligencer's Ethos

Author: John T. Young

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

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00060

63.

Extracts from 'Faber' (Pierre Jean Fabré) and other alchemical writers

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MM/6/5, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00117

64.

Index Chemicus (part b)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 30, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00201

65.

Six pages of miscellaneous notes originally grouped together with what is now Babson Ms. 747.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00128

66.

Chapter XI

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00127

67.

Three sets of chemical notes.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 421, 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: ALCH00095

68.

Appendix 1

Author: John T. Young

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

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00066

69.

Miscellaneous (al)chemical recipes in four different hands, none of which is Newton's (or Humphrey Newton's).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: NC3/1-6, Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00070

70.

Notes on mercury and its purification.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00120

71.

Notes from Ramón Lull.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: M132/2/8, Stanford University Library, Stanford, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00103

72.

'Notanda Chymica' (late 1660s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1028 B, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00080

73.

'Artephius his secret Book', followed by 'The Epistle of Iohn Pontanus, wherein he beareth witness of ye book of Artephius', c. 1,500 words, 3 pp. (c. 1670s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 14, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00003

74.

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 99, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00060

75.

Notes on Sendivogius (c. 1685-90).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 55, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00044

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