Newton's Alchemical Work

So, looking around on the web, I found some more digital resources to add to my collection.

Indiana University at Bloomington has a fantastic website called The Chymistry of Isaac Newton which contains scans and transcriptions of nearly all of the great scientists works on Alchemy and Chemistry.

The URL is http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/

It contains 66 works of Newton which include his copy of The Emerald Tablet, The Secret Book of Artephius, and  "Out of Bloomfield's Blossoms", notes taken from Avicenna, Nicholas Flammel, George Ripley, Sendivogius, Raymon Lull, Sir Edward Kelley and Elias Ashmole, among others... as well as several works on the Philosopher's Stone, and excerpts of several other famous alchemical works such as Atalanta Fugiens, A New Light of Alchymie, and Theatrum Chemicum, and many many others.

Each has a scan of the original manuscript, save perhaps 2 which are short and have .JPGs available for each page in the works. Each has 2 transcriptions available, one Normalized and one "Diplomatic". The Diplomatic one contains all of the crossed out notes and shorthand notations that were in the original, while the normalized removes the excised material and expands the shorthand (except for alchemical symbols, which it thankfully retains).

But if that weren't enough, the site also has a lovely glossary of alchemical terms, a nice unicode font based on Newton's unique symbol system, a handy symbol guide, a nicely hyperlinked copy of Newton's Index Chemicus Ordinatus in dictionary format, experiments, articles, semantic analysis tools,Multimedia Lab, and a lot of other goodies out there that are just fasciating.

I've downloaded all the scans, and made copies of the Diplomatic Transcriptions... I I'll still need to do the Normalized ones.

But, all in all, a FANTASTIC addition to the Magus' library....