Notebooks of Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, ca. 1968-1975.

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Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, 1930-1994. Notebooks of Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, ca. 1968-1975.

Notebooks of Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, ca. 1968-1975.

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Notes by Dobbs, compiled in the course of her research on Sir Isaac Newton and his alchemical work. Some notebooks dated from the period 1968-1975; the others are undated. Dated 1968. Notes on early works on chemistry, alchemy, and the nature of bodies. Cover title: Vigiani 1683, symbols, etc. Dated summer 1971. Largely concerns symbols found in alchemical manuscripts, including Keynes MS 31 (Newton's Liber mercurioum corporum), A course of chymistry under Signior Vigani, professor of chymistry in the University of Cambridge, and works by Lemery. Cover title: Surveys of the Keynes MSS. Notes on the Keynes collection of the works of Sir Isaac Newton at King's College, Cambridge. Sections on specific manuscripts labeled with plastic tabs. Leaf laid in (4) dated 9/21/73. Notes on Conduitt's notebooks in the Keynes collection (Keynes MS 130 (3-6a, 9, 11)), headings of De pharmaco catholico (NQ. 16.80), Sloane Ms 3753 at the British Library (Extracts from John de Monte-Snyders treatise, entitled Metamorphosis planetarum), indexed shelf-lists of the Trinity College Library, 1667-1675 (MS Add.a.101). Notes on Isaac Newton manuscripts in the Cambridge University Archives: MS Add 3973 (Notes on experiments, in English and Latin, 1678-1695), 3974 (Notes, chiefly regarding gems, in Newton's and two other hands, in English and Latin, c. 1670), and 3975 (Notes on precious stones, colours, temperatures, salts, medical matters, alchemy and other subjects, in English and Latin, c. 1681-1693). Cover title: Bibliographic notes. Notes primarily on printed alchemical texts in Newton's library. Sections labeled with tabs: Wren Library shelf list, Notes on dating, Notes on early collections, Notes on Ripley, Contents of Theatrum chem., Theatrum chem. Britannicum, Acknowledgements, and Ars chemica Mus. herm., 1628. Cover title: Newtonian alchemical sources. Includes a section on alchemical symbols. Unbound copies of The peaks of medical history by Charles Dana (New York : Paul B. Hoeber, 1928) and William Harvey by Archibald Malloch (New York : Paul B. Hoeber, 1929), housed together in leather book cover. Cover title: Research II, 1974-75, Newton manuscripts. Notes on the following Newton manuscripts: Keynes MS 21 (The method of ye work: a commentary on Didier's 'Six Keys'), Keynes MS 23 (Epistola ad veros Hermetis discipulos continens claves sex principales Philosophiæ secretæ), Keynes MS 63 (Verses at the end of B. Valentine's mystery of the microcosm), Keynes MS 59 (De secreto solu[tionum?]), Keynes MS 60 ('Tabula Smaragdina' and 'Hieroglyphica Planetarum'), Keynes MS 28 (Translation and transcription of the Tabula Smaragdina of 'Hermes Trismegistus', with notes), and Keynes MS 43 (Transcripts from two published alchemical tracts). Notes on Digby's Two treatises. Mostly blank notebook, with some notes on manuscripts in the Joseph Halle Schaffner collection of scientific manuscripts at the University of Chicago.

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