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1.

'Practica Mariæ Prophetissæ in Artem Alchemicam' (early 1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 45, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00034

2.

A large compilation of alchemical citations woven into a continuous text (1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 417, 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: ALCH00091

3.

Excerpts (probably made in the 1690s) from the correspondence between Edmund Dickinson and Theodorus Mundanus published by the former. In Latin.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 129, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00086

4.

'Observations of ye matter in ye Glass. Authore Anonymo' (mid-1670s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 39, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00028

5.

'The Work of an old Priest, viz: B.' and other alchemical recipes (late 1660s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 62, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00051

6.

Papers relating to chronology and 'Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 361(3), New College Library, Oxford, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00098

7.

Chapter Seven: The Dawn of Wisdom

Author: John T. Young

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

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00064

8.

Nine miscellaneous items relating to (al)chemical processes.

Author: Isaac Newton

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

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00065

9.

Chapter Six: Universal Medicines: Johann Rudolph Glauber and his Reception in England

Author: John T. Young

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

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00063

10.

Three apparently unrelated fragments (early-mid 1670s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 58, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00047

11.

Alchemical notes (probably before 18 May 1669), drawn largely if not entirely from Michael Maier's Symbola Aureæ Mensæ duodecim nationum (Frankfurt, 1617: H1048).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 29, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00018

12.

Miscellaneous extracts from and notes on various alchemical authors, in English.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 20, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00009

13.

'Ex Hercule Piochymico'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00118

14.

Miscellaneous alchemical notes and emblems, in Latin and English with some French.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 416, 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: ALCH00090

15.

'The use of the Kalendar for finding the Lords day & the Moveable Feasts'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Yahuda Ms. 24b, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00278

16.

'Sententiæ luciferæ et Conclusiones notabiles' (1696-8?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 56, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00045

17.

'De Igne sophorum et materia quam calefacit'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Yahuda Ms. 38, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00062

18.

Review of recent books on Newton

Author: Baden Powell

Source: ‘Sir Isaac Newton’, The Edinburgh Review (1856), pp. 499-534.

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00011

19.

Chapter 6: 'The Long-Lost Truth.'

Author: David Boyd Haycock

Source: William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England (2002).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00023

20.

Three alchemical excerpts (1668/9).

Author: Isaac Newton

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

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00025

21.

Transcript of Johann de Monte Snyders' The Metamorphosis of the Planets, with notes.

Author: Isaac Newton

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

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00107

22.

'Manna': transcript (1675?) of an anonymous alchemical treatise, in another hand with additions and notes by Newton.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 33, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00022

23.

Notebook containing notes and experimental reports

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3975, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00110

24.

Notes on ancient history and mythology

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MSS.Temp3.Miss, Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00105

25.

Notes on various alchemical texts (early 1680s?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 35, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00024

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