At Christie’s, and on-line auction November 8:
In Isaac Newton’s own hand:
In Latin, four full pages and three partial pages of text, on three bifolia, 203 x 155mm, the text on one page partially written in inverse orientation.
Notes on the Turba Philosophorum, one of the most influential of all alchemical texts, a Latin translation of an Arabic anthology of pre-medieval alchemical texts, whose origins may be seen in an attempt to apply Greek alchemy to Islamic science.
Estimate: GBP 80,000 ($100,800) – GBP 100,000 ($130,000).
Lee
Brian Mays kind of looks like him. Or maybe if Brian Mays and Freddy Mercury had had a kid.
Dick the Butcher
Isaac Newton invented Calculus and the gold standard – in response the World’s first financial crisis created by the newly spawned Bank of England. .
Re: alchemy and gold. Progressives were successful where alchemists failed. They turned magic paper and mystical ink into “money” and confiscated (FDR 1933 executive order) all the gold/real money.
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