Catalogue Entry: ALCH00070

Miscellaneous (al)chemical recipes in four different hands, none of which is Newton's (or Humphrey Newton's).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English , c. 2,000 words, 10 pp. on 7 ff.

Source: NC3/1-6, Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, UK

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by 'Maxwell' (i.e. Lymington) for £4.10s. and presumably presented by him to Hampshire Record Office either formally or on permanent loan.

Sotheby Lot

SL83

Contents

Includes 'A Medicine to transmute Copper'; 'To make artificiall pearle', and other untitled recipes and notes in similar vein.