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Catalog Name ALCH00030
Document Keynes MS 41
Title Opus Primum Extractio & rectificatio spiritus.
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Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date
Repository King's College
Pages 39
Wordcount 12,000
Language Latin;English;
Contents

Also features extensive interlinear notes and additions apparently inserted after the main text had been written.

f. 1r 'Opus primum. Extractio & rectificatio spiritus.'

f. 2r 'Opus secundum. Extractio animæ.'

f. 3r 'Opus tertium. Terræ calcinatio'

f. 5r 'Opus quintum./ Acuatio spiritus rectificanti cum rebus calidis sui generis per sublimationes, & conversio in mercurium vegetabilem ut et in Quintessentiam quæ cælum est Philosophorum, et Liquor Alkahest, quocum fit Aurum potabile.'

f. 11r 'Opus sextum. Solutio sicca et humida metallorum vulgi eorumq[ue] purgatio & multiplicatio infinita mercurij sophici et extractio auri vivi.'

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