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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'Practica Mariæ Prophetissæ in Artem Alchemicam' (early 1690s).
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'Observations of ye matter in ye Glass. Authore Anonymo' (mid-1670s).
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'The Work of an old Priest, viz: B.' and other alchemical recipes (late 1660s).
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'Ripley expounded', 12 pp.; and 'Notes upon Ripley,' in English, c. 1,500 words, 7 pp.
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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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Notes on and excerpts from George Ripley's 'Clavis Aureæ Portæ', 'Medulla Alchimiæ', and 'Pupilla Alchemiæ'.
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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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Three apparently unrelated fragments (early-mid 1670s).
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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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Alchemical notes (probably before 18 May 1669), drawn largely if not entirely from Michael Maier's Symbola Aureæ Mensæ duodecim nationum (Frankfurt, 1617: H1048).
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Miscellaneous extracts from and notes on various alchemical authors, in English.
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'Sententiæ luciferæ et Conclusiones notabiles' (1696-8?).
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'De Igne sophorum et materia quam calefacit'.
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Notes and abstracts 'Ex Fabri Hydrographo Spagyrico' (f. 1r) and 'Ex Palladio Spagyrico' (f. 2r), with page references (1690s?).
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Three alchemical excerpts (1668/9).
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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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Notebook containing notes and experimental reports
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Notes on various alchemical texts (early 1680s?).
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Two incomplete treatises on the vegetative growth of metals and minerals
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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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'Verses at the end of B[asil] Valentine's mystery of the Microcosm'
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Miscellaneous alchemical notes and recipes
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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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Three related sets of notes (late 1680s-90s).
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'Causæ et initia naturalium' (notes on Jan Baptista van Helmont's Ortus medicinae (1667)).
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