Royal Society and Lost Mauscripts ...

You would think that manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton on how turn base metals into gold wouldn't be easily lost ... and at the Royal Society ... But apparently that can happen ... However the Story has a good ending ...


Apparently ... the Lost Newton manuscript was rediscovered at Royal Society;

This is what it says: "A collection of notes by Sir Isaac Newton, thought by experts to be lost forever, have recently been rediscovered during cataloguing at the Royal Society and go on display to the public for the first time next week at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition.

The notes are written about alchemy, which some scientists in Newton's time believed to hold the secret for transforming base metals, such as lead, into the more precious metals of gold or silver. Much of the text consists of Newton's notes on the work of another alchemist of the seventeenth century, Frenchman Pierre Jean Fabre. But one page of the notes presents a more intriguing prospect it offers what may be Newton's own thoughts on alchemy, written almost entirely in English and in his own handwriting."

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