The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
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Description: A project of the University of Indiana aiming to transcribe Newton's alchemical manuscripts, to investigate the laboratory techniques of Newton's time, and to replicate contemporary equipment and experiments.
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project: Home Isaac Newton, like Albert Einstein, is a quintessential symbol of the human intellect and its ability to decode the secrets of nature. Newton's fundamental contributions to science include the quantification of gravitational attraction, the discovery that white light is actually a mixture of immutable spectral colors, and the formulation of the calculus. Yet there is another, more mysterious side to Newton that is imperfectly known, a realm of activity that spanned some thirty years of his life, although he kept it largely hidden from his contemporaries and colleagues. We refer to Newton's involvement in the discipline of alchemy, or as it was often called in seventeenth-century England, "chymistry." Newton wrote and transcribed about a million words on the subject of alchemy. Newton's alchemical manuscripts include a rich and diverse set of document types, including laboratory notebooks, indices of alchemical substances, and Newton's transcriptions from other sources.
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| Page title: | The Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project: Home |
| Keywords: | science,chemistry,history,isaac newton,chymistry,alchemical manuscripts,national science foundation,laboratory,chymistry of isaac newton,indiana university,digtial library,alchemy,newton |
| Description: | Isaac Newton, like Albert Einstein, is a quintessential symbol of the human intellect and its ability to decode the secrets of nature. Newton wrote and transcribed about a million words on the subject of alchemy, of which only a tiny fraction has today been published. With the support of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton hosted by Indiana University's Digital Library Program, is producing a scholarly online edition of Newton's alchemical manuscripts integrated with new research on Newton's chymistry. |
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