Notes of experiments in Newton's hand, dated Dec. 10, 1678 - April 1695, and "De metallo ad conficiendum speculum componendo et fundendo." [microform].
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Title
Notes of experiments in Newton's hand, dated Dec. 10, 1678 - April 1695, and "De metallo ad conficiendum speculum componendo et fundendo." [microform].
Created/published
1678 - 1695.
Description
50 pp.
Note
Dec. 10, 1678 - Jan. 15. Subliming antimony with salamoniac. Alloying antimony with lead and other metals. 2. Jan. 1679-80. Subliming antimonial sublimate with lead antimoniate &c. Jan. 22. Action of nitric acid and salammoniac on antimony sulphide &c. and further sublimations. 3. Feb. 1679-80. Fusing antimony with vitriol and other things. Sublimation of various metals by help of antimony and salammoniac &c. Action of oil of vitriol on galena, of nitric acid on sublimate of antimony, and others of a like kind. 4. Aug. 1682. Similar experiments; some on lead ore, others on an alloy of tin and bismuth which he seems to call Diana. 5. July 10 (no year), "vidi *philosophicum." Sublimations of calx albus with salammoniac. 6. April 26, 1686. On a volatile salt of zinc (apparently the chloride), an on an alloy derived from ores of iron, antimony, tin, lead, and bismuth. May 16. "On ven. vol". 7. Mar. 5, 1690 - 1 and Mar. 16. On some bismuth compounds and the action of aqua fortis on alloys of tin and bismuth and zinc. 8. Experiments and observations, Dec. 1692 and Jan. 1692-3. Working of barm. Other experiments. Comparison of the fusibility of alloys of lead, tin, and bismuth, in which is given as the most fusible an alloy of 5 of lead + 8 of tin + 12 of bismuth. April 1693 and June 1693, further experiments. 9. April 1695. Experiments with antimony and ores of iron, copper, and tim, and sublimations with salammoniac. Feb. 1695-6, sublimations of antimony with iron ore. 10. Notes of Chemical Experiments, without date: Action of aqua fortis on antimony sulphide, &c., Sublimation of alloy of antimony and lead with slalmmoniac, &c., Experiments on lead ore and other things., Do. on copper.
Ms. Add. 3973 in the Portsmouth collection from the University Library Cambridge, England.
Description taken from Sir Isaac Newton: A catalogue of manuscripts and papers collected and published on microfilm by Chadwyck-Healey, edited by Peter Jones, pp. 10, no. 20.
Ms. Add. 3973 in the Portsmouth collection from the University Library Cambridge, England.
Description taken from Sir Isaac Newton: A catalogue of manuscripts and papers collected and published on microfilm by Chadwyck-Healey, edited by Peter Jones, pp. 10, no. 20.
Reproduction
Microfilm. Cambridge, England : University Library 1 microfilm reel ; 35mm.
Folger-specific note
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs copy.
Call number
Film Acc. 664.1