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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy or, ‘The Hunting of the Greene Lyon’. By Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. XV + 300. £10.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Marie Boas Hall
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , November 1977 , pp. 262 - 264
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1977

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1 Nor does she mention Agricola's De metallis which according to Humphrey Newton (whose account Mrs Dobbs otherwise accepts), Newton constantly consulted during his experiments—hardly an alchemical work, and certainly not concerned with transmutation in any mystic sense, although Newton could well have learned much from it about smelting, purifying and assaying metals.

2 Westfall, R. S., Force in Newton's physics. The science of dynamics in the seventeenth century. (London and New York, 1971), pp. 323–423.Google Scholar

3 ‘Newton's chemical experiments’, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, xi (1958), 113–52.Google Scholar