View Catalog: ALCH00002

Catalog Name ALCH00002
Document Keynes MS 13
Title 1 Hermetis Tab. Smarag.
Subtitle
Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date various dates between 1684 and late 1690s
Repository King's College
Pages 8
Wordcount 0
Language Latin;
Contents

pp. 1-3 A list of writers and works on alchemy, variously classified according to antiquity, nationality and degree of usefulness.

p. 4 Draft of 'An account of Gold & Silver moneys coyned since Christmas'.

pp. 5-6 Another list of writers, with their dates, signed 'Ieova sanctvs vnvs' [an anagram of Isaacvs Nevvtonvs].

p. 7 'Authores optimi': another list.

p. 8 Extract from 'An Act for encouraging Coynage' (18 Charles II cap. 5).

Notes

The Mint material is obviously no earlier than 1696 (when Newton joined the Mint) and some of the rest of the manuscript is written in an identical hand; other sections appear to be earlier, and the last internal date is 1684.

Related Materials

See Figala et al., 'De Scriptoribus', passim, and Dobbs, Foundations, 174, n.100.