Introducing Newton’s Alchemical Papers
Newton’s alchemical works are being transcribed by our sister project, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton at the University of Indiana. Links to the material already available on the Chymistry site are provided below. A full listing of the source material it will make available can be found in the Alchemical Papers section of the Newton Project’s online catalogue.
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Notebook containing notes and experimental reports
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Transcript of 'Sr George Ripley His Epistle to K Edward unfolded'
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Two incomplete treatises on the vegetative growth of metals and minerals
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'Verses at the end of B[asil] Valentine's mystery of the Microcosm'
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Notes evidently on Newton's own laboratory experiments
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'Index Chemicus'
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Index Chemicus (part a)
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Index Chemicus (part b)
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Twelve small bundles of alchemical notes and extracts from a very wide range of sources.
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Three lists of alchemical writers and works, partly on the reverse of Mint-related material
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'Of ye first Gate'
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'Practica Mariæ Prophetissæ in Artem Alchemicam' (early 1690s).
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'De secreto solu[tionum? (MS torn)]'.
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Three related sets of notes (late 1680s-90s).
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Abstracts of five works by Michael Maier (early 1690s).
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Notebook containing little but headings ('De Sale'; 'Solutio'; 'Conjunctio et Liquefactio'; 'Imbibitio & Calcinatio', etc.), with gaps for entries left blank apart from a few perfunctory notes in Latin.
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Two unrelated tracts in the same hand (not Newton's)
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Four alchemical verse allegories, in English.
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'Thesaurus Thesaurorum sive Medicina Aurea'.
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Notebook (early 1690s), containing alchemical notes from a wide range of sources.
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'Ripley expounded', 12 pp.; and 'Notes upon Ripley,' in English, c. 1,500 words, 7 pp.
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Notes on the preparation of 'philosophical mercury' by fermentation and 'ye mediation of Diana's Doves', on the preparation of 'menstrua', etc.
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'Basil Valentine Currus Triumphalis Antimonij': notes and abstracts (c. 1667-8).
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Transcripts from two published alchemical tracts.
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Notes on the works of George Ripley [from a manuscript version of 'Eirenæus Philalethes'' Ripley Reviv'd (1678)] (late 1660s/ early 1670s).
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Two alchemical treatises (one incomplete; after 1686) and a collection of short extracts from various alchemical sources.
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'Manna': transcript (1675?) of an anonymous alchemical treatise, in another hand with additions and notes by Newton.
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