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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'Experimenta Raymundi', 6 pp.
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'Collectiones ex Novo Lumine Chymico quæ ad Praxin spectant', 6 pp., and 'Arcanum Hermeticæ Philosophiæ Opus', 3 pp. (early 1669?).
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'Pearce the black Monck upon ye Elixir': an alchemical verse allegory, 226 lines.
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'Out of La Lumiere sortant des Tenebres' and 'Out of the Commentator on La Lumiere sortant de Tenebris [sic]' (c. 1687-92), incomplete.
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Transcript of 'Sr George Ripley His Epistle to K Edward unfolded'
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Excerpts from Jodocus a Rhe [Johannes Rhenanus], with transcripts of letters to Dr. John Twysden [Twisden] from 'A.C. [leg. A.O.?] Faber' and notes on a work by Faber. In Latin.
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Notebook containing notes and experimental reports
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'Basil Valentine Currus Triumphalis Antimonij': notes and abstracts (c. 1667-8).
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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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'The Epitome of the treasure of health written by Edwardus Generosus Anglicus innominatus who lived Anno Domini 1562'.
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Chemical notes, partly in another hand.
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Notebook containing abstracts and notes drawn from various alchemical works.
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Three alchemical excerpts (1668/9).
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Twelve small bundles of alchemical notes and extracts from a very wide range of sources.
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'The Work of an old Priest, viz: B.' and other alchemical recipes (late 1660s).
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'Liber Mercurioum [sic: leg. 'Mercuriorum'] Corporum' (1668-75).
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Three apparently unrelated fragments (early-mid 1670s).
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'Clavis': detailed directions for a lengthy alchemical operation beginning with the digestion of antimony, iron and sulphur.
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Miscellaneous alchemical notes and recipes
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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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Transcripts from two published alchemical tracts.
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Memorandum by Newton (1696).
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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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'Index Chemicus'
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Index Chemicus (part a)
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Index Chemicus (part b)
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'Observations of ye matter in ye Glass. Authore Anonymo' (mid-1670s).
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