Newton the Alchemist : : Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" / / William Newman.
A book that finally demystifies Newton’s experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton’s alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts was shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment rationality, the legendary physicist suddenly be...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Symbols and Conventions -- |t Abbreviations for Works Cited -- |t ONE. The Enigma of Newton’s Alchemy -- |t TWO. Problems of Authority and Language in Newton’s Chymistry -- |t THREE. Religion, Ancient Wisdom, and Newton’s Alchemy -- |t FOUR. Early Modern Alchemical Theory -- |t FIVE. The Young Thaumaturge -- |t SIX. Optics and Matter: Newton, Boyle, and Scholastic Mixture Theory -- |t SEVEN. Newton’s Early Alchemical Theoricae -- |t EIGHT. Toward a General Theory of Vegetability and Mechanism -- |t NINE. The Doves of Diana -- |t TEN. Flowers of Lead -- |t ELEVEN. Johann de Monte-Snyders in Newton’s Alchemy -- |t TWELVE. Attempts at a Unified Practice -- |t THIRTEEN. The Fortunes of Raymundus -- |t FOURTEEN. The Shadow of a Noble Experiment -- |t FIFTEEN. The Quest for Sophic Sal Ammoniac -- |t SIXTEEN. Extracting Our Venus -- |t SEVENTEEN. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Alchemical Collaborator -- |t EIGHTEEN. Praxis -- |t NINETEEN. The Warden of the Mint and His Alchemical Associates -- |t TWENTY. Public and Private -- |t TWENTY-ONE. The Ghost of Sendivogius -- |t TWENTY-TWO. A Final Interlude -- |t Epilogue -- |t APPENDIX ONE. The Origin of Newton’s Chymical Dictionaries -- |t APPENDIX TWO. Newton’s “Key to Snyders” -- |t APPENDIX THREE. “Three Mysterious Fires” -- |t APPENDIX FOUR. Newton’s Interview with William Yworth -- |t Index |
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520 | |a A book that finally demystifies Newton’s experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton’s alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts was shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment rationality, the legendary physicist suddenly became “the last of the magicians.” Newton the Alchemist unlocks the secrets of Newton’s alchemical quest, providing a radically new understanding of the uncommon genius who probed nature at its deepest levels in pursuit of empirical knowledge.In this evocative and superbly written book, William Newman blends in-depth analysis of newly available texts with laboratory replications of Newton’s actual experiments in alchemy. He does not justify Newton’s alchemical research as part of a religious search for God in the physical world, nor does he argue that Newton studied alchemy to learn about gravitational attraction. Newman traces the evolution of Newton’s alchemical ideas and practices over a span of more than three decades, showing how they proved fruitful in diverse scientific fields. A precise experimenter in the realm of “chymistry,” Newton put the allusive riddles of alchemy to the test in his lab. He also used ideas drawn from the alchemical texts to great effect in his optical experimentation. In his hands, alchemy was a tool for attaining the material benefits associated with the philosopher’s stone and an instrument for acquiring scientific knowledge of the most sophisticated kind.Newton the Alchemist provides rare insights into a man who was neither Enlightenment rationalist nor irrational magus, but rather an alchemist who sought through experiment and empiricism to alter nature at its very heart. | ||
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650 | 0 | |a Science |x History. | |
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653 | |a Benedictine Basilius Valentinus. | ||
653 | |a CU Add. 3973. | ||
653 | |a Captain Hylliard. | ||
653 | |a Eirenaeus Philalethes. | ||
653 | |a Enlightenment. | ||
653 | |a Epistola ad Theodorum Mundanum. | ||
653 | |a Free Grammar School. | ||
653 | |a Humores minerales. | ||
653 | |a Hypothesis of Light. | ||
653 | |a Isaac Newton. | ||
653 | |a Johann de Monte-Snyders. | ||
653 | |a Johann de Monte–Snyders. | ||
653 | |a Keynes 35. | ||
653 | |a Keynes 58. | ||
653 | |a Keynes MS 58. | ||
653 | |a Michael Sendivogius. | ||
653 | |a Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. | ||
653 | |a Nicolas Flamel. | ||
653 | |a Of Natures obvious laws & processes in vegetation. | ||
653 | |a Opera. | ||
653 | |a Opticks. | ||
653 | |a Philalethes. | ||
653 | |a Praxis. | ||
653 | |a Ramon Lull. | ||
653 | |a Robert Boyle. | ||
653 | |a Sendivogius. | ||
653 | |a Three Mysterious Fires. | ||
653 | |a Treatise of Chymistry. | ||
653 | |a Trinity College. | ||
653 | |a William Yworth. | ||
653 | |a adept. | ||
653 | |a alchemical text. | ||
653 | |a alchemist. | ||
653 | |a alchemists. | ||
653 | |a alchemy. | ||
653 | |a ancient mythology. | ||
653 | |a antimonial sublimate. | ||
653 | |a antimony. | ||
653 | |a aurific art. | ||
653 | |a biblical prophecy. | ||
653 | |a caduceus of Mercury. | ||
653 | |a chrysopoeia. | ||
653 | |a chymical laboratory. | ||
653 | |a chymical research. | ||
653 | |a chymical studies. | ||
653 | |a chymist. | ||
653 | |a chymistry of light. | ||
653 | |a chymistry. | ||
653 | |a color theory. | ||
653 | |a color. | ||
653 | |a copper vitriol. | ||
653 | |a education. | ||
653 | |a empiricism. | ||
653 | |a exegesis. | ||
653 | |a experimental notebooks. | ||
653 | |a experimental philosophy. | ||
653 | |a florilegium style. | ||
653 | |a florilegium. | ||
653 | |a gold. | ||
653 | |a laboratory notebooks. | ||
653 | |a lead. | ||
653 | |a lorilegia. | ||
653 | |a metals. | ||
653 | |a mining. | ||
653 | |a natural world. | ||
653 | |a nature. | ||
653 | |a niter. | ||
653 | |a optical experimentation. | ||
653 | |a optical research. | ||
653 | |a optics. | ||
653 | |a our Venus. | ||
653 | |a philosophers' stone. | ||
653 | |a phlogiston theory. | ||
653 | |a reason. | ||
653 | |a refraction theory. | ||
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