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The Portsmouth Collection
| Title |
Notes of Experiments, all in Newton's Hand |
| Reference |
MS Add.3973 |
| Covering Dates |
1670–1700 |
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| Index Terms |
| Alchemy |
| Chemistry |
| Experimental Chemistry |
| Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3973 contains: |
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Add.3973.1
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Subliming Antimony with Salamoniac; Alloying Antimony with Lead and Other Metals.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.3 [quarto]; paper. |
10 December 1678–15 September 1679 |
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Add.3973.2
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Subliming Antimonial Sublimate with Lead Antimoniate etc.; Action of Nitric Acid and Salammoniac on Antimony Sulphide etc.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper. |
January 1679 |
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Add.3973.3
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Fusing Antimony with Vitriol and other things; Sublimation of Various Metals by Help of Antimony and Salammoniac etc; Action of Oil of Vitriol on Galena, of Nitric Acid on Sublimate of Antimony, and Others of a Like Kind.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper. |
February 1679 |
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Add.3973.4
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Various Experiments. Similar experiments to Add. 3973.3. Some on lead ore, others on an alloy of tin and bismuth which he seems to call Diana.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper. |
August 1682 |
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Add.3973.5
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Sublimations of Calx Albus with Salammoniac etc.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1670-c 1700 |
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Add.3973.6
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On a Volatile Salt of Zinc (apparently the chloride), and on an Alloy Derived from Ores of Iron, Antimony, Tin, Lead and Bismuth.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
26 April 1686–16 May 1686 |
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Add.3973.7
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On Some Bismuth Compounds and the Action of Aqua Fortis on Alloys of Tin, Bismuth and Zinc.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper. |
5 March 1690–16 March 1690 |
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Add.3973.8
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Experiments and Observations. - Working of barm. "in distilling new wine before fermentation, the flegm rises first, and then the spirit, but after fermentation, the spirit rises before he flegm.". - Comparison of the fusibility of alloys of lead, tin and bismuth, in which is given as the most fusible an alloy of 5 parts lead to 7 of tin, to 12 of bismuth. - Other experiments.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper. |
December 1692-June 1693 |
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Add.3973.9
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Experiments with Antimony and Ores of Iron, Copper, and Tin, and Sublimations with Salammoniac; Sublimations of Antimony with Iron Ore.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.3 [quarto]; paper. |
April 1695-February 1696 |
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Add.3973.10
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Undated Notes on Chemical Experiments. - Action of aqua fortis on antimony sulphide, etc. - Sublimation of alloy of antimony and lead with alammoniac, etc. - Experiments on lead ore, etc.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.19 [mostly quarto]; paper. |
c 1670-c 1700 |
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Add.3973.11
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De metallo ad conficiendum speculum componendo et fundendo.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1670-c 1700 |
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