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1.

'Practica Mariæ Prophetissæ in Artem Alchemicam' (early 1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 1,500 words, 4 pp. on 3 ff. of which one blank.

Source: Keynes Ms. 45, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00034

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A large compilation of alchemical citations woven into a continuous text (1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 17,500 words, 56 pp. of which 8 blank.

Source: Ms. 417, 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: ALCH00091

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Excerpts (probably made in the 1690s) from the correspondence between Edmund Dickinson and Theodorus Mundanus published by the former. In Latin.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 3,500 words, 16 pp. on 8 ff.

Source: Ms. 129, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00086

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4.

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

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 2,500 words, 6 pp. on 3 ff.

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

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00028

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5.

'The Work of an old Priest, viz: B.' and other alchemical recipes (late 1660s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 3,500 words, 8 pp. on 9 ff. of which one blank.

Source: Keynes Ms. 62, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00051

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6.

'Ripley expounded', 12 pp.; and 'Notes upon Ripley,' in English, c. 1,500 words, 7 pp.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 4,500 words.

Source: Keynes Ms. 54, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00043

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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.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 12,000 words, 39 pp. on 20 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 41, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00030

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Notes on and excerpts from George Ripley's 'Clavis Aureæ Portæ', 'Medulla Alchimiæ', and 'Pupilla Alchemiæ'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 4,000 words, 8 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 17, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00006

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9.

Technical notes.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 3,000 words, 2 pp.

Source: Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00115

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10.

Nine miscellaneous items relating to (al)chemical processes.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin and English, 48 pp. in a wrapper headed 'Alychimya' [sic] in another hand and bearing a list of contents in Newton's.

Source: B MS c 41, Edwin Newton Ohl Collection, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston Medical Library, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00065

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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.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 2,500 words, 6 pp. on 3 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 34, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00023

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Three apparently unrelated fragments (early-mid 1670s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English and Latin, c. 3,000 words, 12 pp. on 8 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 58, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00047

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'Collectiones ex Novo Lumine Chymico quæ ad Praxin spectant', 6 pp., and 'Arcanum Hermeticæ Philosophiæ Opus', 3 pp. (early 1669?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 3,000 words.

Source: Keynes Ms. 19, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00008

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'Loca difficilia in Novo Lumine Chymico explicata' (c. 1668).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 400 words, 2 pp. + 1 line on 2 ff.

Source: Ms. 925, 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: ALCH00124

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'Preparatio mercurii ad lapidem per regulam et lunam, ex MSS. Phil[oponi] Phi[lalethis] Americani'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: before 1678, in Latin with some English, c. 1,000 words, 6 pp. + 2 pp. blank.

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00126

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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).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin and English, c. 5,000 words, 9 pp. on 5 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 29, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00018

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17.

Miscellaneous extracts from and notes on various alchemical authors, in English.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 8 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 20, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00009

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18.

'Ex Hercule Piochymico'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1680s/1690s, in Latin, c. 1,300 words, 3¼ pp.

Source: Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00118

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19.

Miscellaneous alchemical notes and emblems, in Latin and English with some French.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 28 pp. plus one page blacked out.

Source: Ms. 416, 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: ALCH00090

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20.

Variant version of the memorandum in Keynes Ms. 26 (SL45), in English, 1 p.; on reverse, the draft of a short letter.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata:

Source: Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00114

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21.

'Sententiæ luciferæ et Conclusiones notabiles' (1696-8?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin and English, c. 6,000 words, 18 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 56, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00045

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22.

'De Igne sophorum et materia quam calefacit'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin and English, c. 2,500 words, 6 pp. on 4 ff. of which one blank.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 38, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00062

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Notes and abstracts 'Ex Fabri Hydrographo Spagyrico' (f. 1r) and 'Ex Palladio Spagyrico' (f. 2r), with page references (1690s?).

Author: Isaac Newton

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

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1024 B, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00079

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24.

Three alchemical excerpts (1668/9).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 4,000 words, 8 pp. on 4 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 36, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00025

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Transcript of Johann de Monte Snyders' The Metamorphosis of the Planets, with notes.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 23,500 words, 69 pp.

Source: Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00107

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