Rediscovering the legendary recipe of Isaac Newton to create the Philosopher’s Stone – Gizmodo in Spanish

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Thanks to advances science today we know that the aim pursued by the alchemists the legendary philosopher’s stone, transforming an ordinary metal into gold, it could become technically possible but is so costly and inefficient simply not worth it. Now, Newton’s investigations in this regard have been rediscovered

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The document in question manuscript by Newton himself, collects the experiments and their descriptions used by the scientist with the intention of obtaining a recipe for “philosophical mercury”. At the time, it was thought that the philosophical mercury was a key ingredient in the creation of the same stone philosopher’s stone.

The text has been identified as a copy of an earlier document written by in principle it is another alchemist of the 17th century, Eirenaeus Philalethes. Philalethes identity has been a mystery to historians and scientific community for years, recent research suggests that this might actually be the pseudonym of George Starkey, known chemist of the time. It seems that Newton began working on his own formula from annotations Philalethes / Starkey.

At the time, it was thought that the philosophical mercury was a key ingredient in the creation of the same stone philosopher’s stone.

is not 100% clear that he intended scientist with this formula and if we ever came to try to publish it, but had not been uncommon, according to several experts. The manuscript also includes notes several of Newton on other experiments and research, probably because the papers were still on their table so long that often gave them over to point out something quickly or reuse paper.

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the document in question was sold by the British government during the decade of 1930 to various private collections. Since then it is making an effort to recover and this in particular will return soon that was probably their home, the University of Cambridge in the UK.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation will scan the coming weeks and will take the project the Chymistry of Isaac Newton, so it can be accessed by anyone for free. [Via Chemistry World]

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