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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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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Transcript of 'Sr George Ripley His Epistle to K Edward unfolded'
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'Tabula Smaragdina' and 'Hieroglyphica Planetarum'.
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Two accounts of alchemical operations (1690s?).
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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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'De secreto solu[tionum? (MS torn)]'.
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'Thesaurus Thesaurorum sive Medicina Aurea'.
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Four alchemical verse allegories, in English.
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Notes evidently on Newton's own laboratory experiments
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Memorandum by Newton (1696).
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'Epistola ad veros Hermetis discipulos continens claves sex principales Philosophiæ secretæ' (early 1690s).
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Chemical notes, partly in another hand.
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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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Incomplete draft treatise on the sequence of operations to be effected in transmutation.
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'Anno 1656. Serenissimi Principis Frederici Ducis Holsatiæ et Sleswici &c. communicatione sequens epistola me sibi vendicat, inaudita memorans. Veni et vide'.
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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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'Several Questions concerning the Ph[ilosoph]ers St[one]'.
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Translation and transcription of the Tabula Smaragdina of 'Hermes Trismegistus', with notes (early 1680s-1690s).
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Two unrelated tracts in the same hand (not Newton's)
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