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26.

'Manna': transcript (1675?) of an anonymous alchemical treatise, in another hand with additions and notes by Newton.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 1,500 words, 11 pp. on 6 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 33, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00022

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27.

Index Chemicus (part a)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1680s, in Latin and English with some Greek and Aramaic, c. 30,000 words.

Source: Keynes Ms. 30, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00200

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28.

Notebook containing notes and experimental reports

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1664-1696, mostly in English with some Latin and Greek, c. 65,000 words, 283 pp. + 4 pp. starting from the back.

Source: MS Add. 3975, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00110

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29.

Notes on various alchemical texts (early 1680s?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: mainly in Latin but with several sections in English, c. 26,100 words, 45 pp. on 30 ff. of which 3 blank.

Source: Keynes Ms. 35, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00024

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30.

Fragmentary notes on the astrological characters of the planets and on the gods and metals associated with them, beginning missing. Not in Newton's hand.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 600 words, 2 pp.

Source: M132/2/12, Stanford University Library, Stanford, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00105

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31.

'Experimts of refining Gold wth Antimony made by Dr. Ionathan Goddard'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 1,500 words, 4 pp. on 2 ff.

Source: Ms. 725, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00097

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32.

Incomplete copy, in (probably) the author's hand, of a six-chapter version of William Yworth's 'Processus Mysterii Magni Philosophicus' (1702).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, 91 pp.

Source: Mellon Ms. 80, Mellon Alchemical Mss, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00135

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33.

Two incomplete treatises on the vegetative growth of metals and minerals

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1670-75, in English and Latin, c. 4,500 words, 12 pp.

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1031 B, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00081

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34.

'Lib. chem.' and 'Manuscriptu[m] meum' (c. 1696-7).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 2 pp. on 4 ff. of which 3 blank.

Source: Ms. 418, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00092

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35.

'Basilius Valentinus & Iodochus a Rhe': abstracts from these authors (the latter is more usually called Johannes Rhenanus) on minerals, transmutation of metals, vitriol, etc..

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 6,000 words, 14 pp.

Source: Additional Ms. 44888, British Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00068

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36.

'Miscellanea': Latin notes on experiments, chiefly from Ramón Lull's 'Codicillus' and 'Testamentum' and Zetzner's Theatrum Chemicum.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1,200 words, 4 pp. on 2 ff.

Source: Ms. 747, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00098

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37.

Notes on the mining, preparation and properties of 'Saturn' [i.e. lead] (mid-1670s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: mainly in English, c. 3,500 words, 8 pp.

Source: Mellon Alchemical Mss Mellon Ms. 79, Mellon Alchemical Mss, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00112

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38.

'Verses at the end of B[asil] Valentine's mystery of the Microcosm'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1670?, in English, 569 lines, 20 pp. on 10 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 63, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00052

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39.

Miscellaneous alchemical notes and recipes

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English and Latin, c. 710 words, 4pp. on 3 ff.

Source: QD14.N498, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00202

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40.

'Out of La Lumiere sortant des Tenebres' and 'Out of the Commentator on La Lumiere sortant de Tenebris [sic]' (c. 1687-92), incomplete.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 1,700 words, 4 pp.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 30, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00061

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41.

Three related sets of notes (late 1680s-90s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 5,300 words, 8 pp. badly discoloured and barely legible.

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1032 B, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00082

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42.

'Causæ et initia naturalium' (notes on Jan Baptista van Helmont's Ortus medicinae (1667)).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 2,000 words, 7 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 16, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00005

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43.

'The Three Fires'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 1,000 words, 3 pp. on 2 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 46, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00035

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44.

Abstracts of five works by Michael Maier (early 1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 50,000 words, 88 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 32, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00021

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45.

Miscellaneous collection of mostly unpublished alchemical texts, recipes, reports of experiments, etc. (1660s). In English and Latin, in four different hands, none of them Newton's, though there are a few additions by him.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 125 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 67, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00056

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46.

Draft alchemical treatise or compilation.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin with odd passages in English, c. 14,000 words, 42 pp. + 4 pp. of unrelated material.

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1070 A, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00084

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47.

'Out of Schroderus Pharmacopia'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1670s or early 1680s, in Latin, 3 pp. and 2 lines + 4 pp. blank.

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00130

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48.

'Experimenta Raymundi', 6 pp.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 2,500 words.

Source: Keynes Ms. 47, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00036

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49.

'To make Lucatello's Balsome': a medical recipe, efficacious against 'ye Measell Plague or Small Pox [...] & against poyson & ye biting of a mad dog'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 250 words, 1 p.

Source: M132/2/5, Stanford University Library, Stanford, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00101

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50.

Draft letter or memo (1669?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 200 words, 1 p.

Source: Ms. 433, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00096

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