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101.

Incomplete abstract of Yworth's 'Processus Mysterii Magni Philosophicus' condensed into five chapters (c. early 1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 66, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00055

102.

'The Seven Chapters' (late 1680s-1690s) plus notes and an unrelated draft letter.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 27, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00016

103.

Two sets of notes.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 12, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00001

104.

A list of 113 alchemical authors, categorised by nationality, and eight anonymous works.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 38195(c), St Andrews University Library, St Andrews, Fife, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00074

105.

Incomplete variant copy of William Yworth, 'Processus Mysterij Magni Or An Open Entrance to the Great Mysteries of the Ancient Philosophers', in a clerical hand.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: NC17, Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00071

106.

Highly technical notes in Latin and English on the distillation of salt.

Author: Isaac Newton

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

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00066

107.

'Clavis': detailed directions for a lengthy alchemical operation beginning with the digestion of antimony, iron and sulphur.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 18, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00007

108.

Verse extracts from Hadrian Mynsicht, 'Aureum sæculum redivivum' and 'Testamentum Hadrianeum de aureo Phorem [according to the Sotheby catalogue, though 'Ph[ilosoph]orum is surely intended] lapide', with a diagram, c. 300 lines in all.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00121

109.

Newton's copy of Geber's Chimia (Latin translation by Caspar Horn, 1668), with Latin notes in his hand on both flyleaves elucidating some of Geber's terminology.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Barchas Collection QD 25 G367, Stanford University Library, Stanford, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00106

110.

Notes on sublimation, the Stone, the tincture, etc..

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00132

111.

'The Regimen' (early 1680s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 49, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00038

112.

'Of Chemicall Authors & their writings' (c. 1670-75).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 419, 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: ALCH00093

113.

Notes on various (al)chemical processes (separations, processions, sublimations, distillations, etc.).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 57, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00046

114.

Chapter Five: Curing Creation: Alchemy and Spirituality

Author: John T. Young

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

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00062

115.

Three lists of alchemical writers and works, partly on the reverse of Mint-related material

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 13, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00002

116.

'Of ye first Gate'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 53, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00042

117.

Transcript of 'Sr George Ripley His Epistle to K Edward unfolded'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 52, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00041

118.

'Tabula Smaragdina' and 'Hieroglyphica Planetarum'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 60, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00049

119.

Series of Latin anagrams of Newton's name and lists of authors cited in the Ludus Puerorum, Scala Philosophorum, and Rosarium Magnum, in the last case followed by page numbers.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 1006, 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: ALCH00136

120.

A series of lists of authors and books on alchemy.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: M132/2/3, Stanford University Library, Stanford, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00099

121.

Five original letters from Fatio de Duillier to Newton, all in English; also letters from Fatio to John Conduitt and other Fatio-related material.

Author: Nicolas Fatio de Duillier

Source: Keynes Ms. 96, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00058

122.

Two accounts of alchemical operations (1690s?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1041 B, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00083

123.

'The Hunting of ye Green Lyon & putrefaction of the body according to the number of the eagles', 2 pp., followed by miscellaneous notes in Latin, c. 400 words, 1 p.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 38195(b), St Andrews University Library, St Andrews, Fife, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00073

124.

Chapter Four: Panaceas of the Soul: Comenius and the Dream of Universal Knowledge

Author: John T. Young

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

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00061

125.

'The method of ye work': a commentary on [A.T. Limojon, Sieur de] Didier's 'Six Keys' (early 1690s?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 21, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00010

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