Catalogue Entry: ALCH00028

'Observations of y^e matter in y^e Glass. Authore Anonymo' (mid-1670s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English , c. 2,500 words, 6 pp. on 3 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 39, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £13.10s. and sold to Keynes on 13 August 1936 for the sale price plus 20%: see Spargo, '1936 sale', 127.

Sotheby Lot

SL62

An account of an alchemical experiment, and directions for undertaking another (the latter beginning f. 2r under the heading 'Emanuel'). Presumably transcribed or translated from an unpublished manuscript, and thoroughly non-'mystical' in tone except for the specification (f. 2r) of a prayer for success to be offered before undertaking the experiment and another of thanks to be offered on its successful completion.

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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Catalogue Entry: ALCH00028

'Observations of ye matter in ye Glass. Authore Anonymo' (mid-1670s).

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'Observations of y^e matter in y^e Glass. Authore Anonymo' (mid-1670s).