Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature's "secret fire"
When 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 th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | When 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 |
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| adam_text | Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ІХ SYMBOLS AND CONVENTIONS ХІ ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS CITED XIX One ♦ The Enigma of Newton’s Alchemy i Two ♦ Problems of Authority and Tanguage in Newton’s Chymistry Three ♦ Religion, Ancient Wisdom, and Newton’s Alchemy 45 Four ♦ Early Modern Alchemical Theory: The Cast of Characters Five ♦ The Young Thaumaturge zo 64 88 Six ♦ Optics and Matter: Newton, Boyle, and Scholastic Mixture Theory 114 Seven ♦ Newton’s Early AlchemicalTheoricae: Preliminary Considerations 136 Eight ♦ Toward a General Theory of Vegetability and Mechanism Nine ♦ The Doves of Diana: First Attempts 150 181 Ten ♦ Flowers of Lead: Newton and the Alchemical Florilegium Eleven ♦ Johann de Monte-Snyders in Newton’s Alchemy Twelve ♦ Attempts at a Unified Practice: Keynes 58 209 223 246 Thirteen ♦ The Fortunes of Raymundus: Newtons Late Florilegia 261 Fourteen ♦ The Shadow of a Noble Experiment: Newton’s Laboratory Records to 1696 296 Fifteen ♦ The Quest for Sophie Sal Ammoniac Sixteen ♦ Extracting Our Venus 319 347 Seventeen ♦ Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Alchemical Collaborator Eighteen ♦ Praxis: Delusions of a Disordered Mind? 367 396 Nineteen ♦ The Warden of the Mint and His Alchemical Associates 415
Twenty ♦ Public and Private: Newtons Chrysopoeia and the Republic of Chymistry 434 Twenty-One ♦ The Ghost of Sendivogius: Niter, Sulfur, Fermentation, and Affinity 45г Twenty-Two ♦ A Final Interlude: Newton and Boyle Epilogue 497 APPENDIX ONE ♦ THE ORIGIN OF NEWTON’S CHYMICAL DICTIONARIES APPENDIX TWO ♦ APPENDIX THREE APPENDIX FOUR ♦ 5ОІ NEWTON’S “KEY TO SNYDERS՛’ 504 ♦ 509 “THREE MYSTERIOUS FIRES՛’ NEWTON’S INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM YWORTH INDEX CONTENTS 48г 521 5 I7
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