View Catalog: ALCH00020

Catalog Name ALCH00020
Document Keynes MS 31
Title Liber Mercurioum Corporum
Subtitle
Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date
Repository King's College
Pages 8
Wordcount 3,000
Language English;
Contents

Seven pages of alchemical recipes followed by a table of (al)chemical symbols. Clearly not Newton's own composition though the source(s) has/have not been identified.

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Discussed, with a transcript of two of the recipes and facsimile of the table of symbols, in Dobbs, Foundations, 137-8.