Newly purchased Newton alchemy manuscript to be put online
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 07:53
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—A 17th century document written by Isaac Newton has been purchased from a private owner, by a nonprofit called the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and they have plans to put the whole thing online. What is intriguing about the manuscript is that the main page is a recipe hand-copied by Newton that describes a method of creating "sophick" mercury—a supposed necessary ingredient for making the Philosopher's stone.