Rare Books and Manuscripts : Cap 1. Quomodo metalla generantur

Isaac Newton

Rare Books and Manuscripts

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>a) 'Cap 1.', text beginning 'Quomodo metalla generantur', in Latin, c. 1,200 words, 3 pp.<br /> b) 'Cap 3 De radice semine spermate et corpore mineralium', in Latin, c. 1,200 words, 3 pp.<br /> c) 'Cap 3 De Mineralibus ex quibus lapis desumitur', in Latin but including an English verse extract from Thomas Norton, c. 3,500 words, 11 pp.<br /> d) Untitled notes on mercury, lead, tin, sulphur and iron, in Latin and English, citing a very wide range of authors, c. 4,500 words, 14 pp.<br /> e) 'De Mercurio duplato', in Latin, 4 pp., with the sub-headings: 'Ex Turba', 'Ex Artephio', 'Ex Bernardo Trevisano', 'Ex Flamelli Annotationibus'; followed by an earlier draft also headed 'De [mercurio] duplato' (1 p.) and notes out of Dionysius Zacharias (1 p.); in all c. 1,600 words.<br /> f) 'De conjunctione in hora nativitatis', in Latin and English, c. 2,500 words, 8 pp.<br /> Originally enclosed in a wrapper bearing a list of contents, which has somehow found its way into Keynes Ms. 30 (f. 1).</p><p>Transcription available from the <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/mss/norm/ALCH00024'>Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project</a></p></p>