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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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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Draft alchemical treatise or compilation.
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'Epistola ad veros Hermetis discipulos continens claves sex principales Philosophiæ secretæ' (early 1690s).
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Incomplete abstract of Yworth's 'Processus Mysterii Magni Philosophicus' condensed into five chapters (c. early 1690s).
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Notes on various (al)chemical processes (separations, processions, sublimations, distillations, etc.).
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Four alchemical verse allegories, in English.
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'Notanda Chymica' (late 1660s).
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'Tabula Smaragdina' and 'Hieroglyphica Planetarum'.
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Three lists of alchemical writers and works, partly on the reverse of Mint-related material
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Notebook (early 1690s), containing alchemical notes from a wide range of sources.
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Abstracts of five works by Michael Maier (early 1690s).
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'Practica Mariæ Prophetissæ in Artem Alchemicam' (early 1690s).
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Notes evidently on Newton's own laboratory experiments
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'Thesaurus Thesaurorum sive Medicina Aurea'.
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Two unrelated tracts in the same hand (not Newton's)
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'De secreto solu[tionum? (MS torn)]'.
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Two incomplete treatises on the vegetative growth of metals and minerals
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'Of ye first Gate'
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'De Igne sophorum et materia quam calefacit'.
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'The method of ye work': a commentary on [A.T. Limojon, Sieur de] Didier's 'Six Keys' (early 1690s?).
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Two accounts of alchemical operations (1690s?).
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Two sets of notes.
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Incomplete draft treatise on the sequence of operations to be effected in transmutation.
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A similar composition to Keynes Ms. 40, covering the first six 'operations' (but the fourth is missing). In Latin apart from some citations from George Ripley in English verse in the last two sections.
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Short extracts from an assortment of alchemical writers (early to mid-1670s).
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