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ALCH00061
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Author: Isaac Newton

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

Shelfmark: Yahuda Ms. 30

Location: National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

ALCH00062
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'De Igne sophorum et materia quam calefacit'.

Shelfmark: Yahuda Ms. 38

Location: National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

ALCH00063
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Twelve small bundles of alchemical notes and extracts from a very wide range of sources.

Shelfmark: Ms. Var. 259

Location: National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

ALCH00064
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Notebook containing little but headings ('De Sale'; 'Solutio'; 'Conjunctio et Liquefactio'; 'Imbibitio & Calcinatio', etc.), with gaps for entries left blank apart from a few perfunctory notes in Latin.

Shelfmark: Ms. Var. 260

Location: National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

ALCH00109
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Notes evidently on Newton's own laboratory experiments

Shelfmark: MS Add. 3973

Location: Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00110
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Notebook containing notes and experimental reports

Shelfmark: MS Add. 3975

Location: Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00001
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Two sets of notes.

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 12

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00002
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Three lists of alchemical writers and works, partly on the reverse of Mint-related material

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 13

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00003
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'Artephius his secret Book', followed by 'The Epistle of Iohn Pontanus, wherein he beareth witness of ye book of Artephius', c. 1,500 words, 3 pp. (c. 1670s).

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 14

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00004
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Four alchemical verse allegories, in English.

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 15

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00005
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Author: Isaac Newton

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

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 16

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00006
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Author: Isaac Newton

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

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 17

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00007
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'Clavis': detailed directions for a lengthy alchemical operation beginning with the digestion of antimony, iron and sulphur.

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 18

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00008
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Author: Isaac Newton

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

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 19

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00009
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Author: Isaac Newton

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

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 20

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00010
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'The method of ye work': a commentary on [A.T. Limojon, Sieur de] Didier's 'Six Keys' (early 1690s?).

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 21

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00011
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'The Epitome of the treasure of health written by Edwardus Generosus Anglicus innominatus who lived Anno Domini 1562'.

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 22

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00012
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'Epistola ad veros Hermetis discipulos continens claves sex principales Philosophiæ secretæ' (early 1690s).

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 23

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00013
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'Anno 1656. Serenissimi Principis Frederici Ducis Holsatiæ et Sleswici &c. communicatione sequens epistola me sibi vendicat, inaudita memorans. Veni et vide'.

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 24

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00014
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Short extracts from an assortment of alchemical writers (early to mid-1670s).

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 25

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00015
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Memorandum by Newton (1696).

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 26

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00016
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'The Seven Chapters' (late 1680s-1690s) plus notes and an unrelated draft letter.

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 27

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00017
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Translation and transcription of the Tabula Smaragdina of 'Hermes Trismegistus', with notes (early 1680s-1690s).

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 28

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00018
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: Alchemical notes (probably before 18 May 1669), drawn largely if not entirely from Michael Maier's Symbola Aureæ Mensæ duodecim nationum (Frankfurt, 1617: H1048).

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 29

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

ALCH00019
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Author: Isaac Newton

Title: 'Index Chemicus'

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 30

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

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