www.history.com The Philosopher’s Stone Of the material sold during the 1936 Sotheby’s auction, several documents indicate an interest by Newton in the procurement or development of The Philosopher’s Stone. Most notably are documents entitled, “Artephius his secret Book”, followed by “The Epistle of Iohn Pontanus, wherein he beareth witness of ye book of Artephius”, these are themselves a collection of excerpts from another work entitled, “Nicholas Flammel, His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures which he caused to be painted upon an Arch in St Innocents Church-yard in Paris. Together with The secret Booke of Artephius, And the Epistle of Iohn Pontanus: Containing both the Theoricke and the Practicke of the Philosophers Stone”. This work may also have been referenced by Newton in its Latin version found within Lazarus Zetzner’s, “Theatrum Chemicum”, a volume often associated with the Turba Philosophorum and other early European alchemical manuscripts. Nicolas Flamel, (one subject of the aforementioned work) was a notable, though mysterious figure, often associated with the discovery of The Philosopher’s Stone, Hieroglyphical Figures, early forms of tarot, and occultism. Artephius, and his “secret book”, were also subjects of interest to 17th Century alchemists. Also in the 1936 auction of Newton’s collection was, “The Epitome of the treasure of health written by Edwardus Generosus Anglicus innominatus who lived Anno Domini 1562″. This is a twenty-eight page treatise …
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www.history.com Newton’s studies of the Temple of Solomon Newton studied and wrote extensively upon the Temple of Solomon, dedicating an entire chapter of “The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms” to his observations regarding the temple. Newton’s primary source for information was the description of the structure given within 1 Kings of the Hebrew Bible, which he translated himself from the original Hebrew. Isaac Newton’s diagram of part of the Temple of Solomon, taken from Plate 1 of The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms. Published London, 1728.In addition to scripture, Newton also relied upon various ancient and contemporary sources while studying the temple. He believed that many ancient sources were endowed with sacred wisdom[2] and that the proportions of many of their temples were in themselves sacred. This belief would lead Newton to examine many architectural works of Hellenistic Greece, as well as Roman sources such as Vitruvius, in a search for their occult knowledge. This concept, often termed “prisca sapientia” (sacred wisdom), was a common belief of many scholars during Newton’s lifetime. As a Bible scholar, Newton was initially interested in the sacred geometry of Solomon’s Temple, such as golden sections, conic sections, spirals, orthographic projection, and other harmonious constructions, but he also believed that the dimensions and proportions represented more. He noted that the temple’s measurements given in the Bible are mathematical problems, related to solutions for π and the volume of a hemisphere, V = (2 / 3)πr3, and in a larger sense that they were references to the size of the Earth and man’s place and proportion to it.[citation needed] Newton believed that the temple was designed by King Solomon with privileged eyes and divine guidance. To Newton, the geometry of the temple represented more than a mathematical blueprint, it also provided a time-frame chronology of Hebrew history. It was for this reason that he included a chapter devoted to the temple within “The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms”, a section which initially may seem unrelated to the historical nature of the book as a whole. Newton felt that just as the writings of ancient philosophers, scholars, and Biblical figures contained within them unknown sacred wisdom, the same was true of their architecture. He believed that these men had hidden their knowledge in a complex code of symbolic and mathematical language that, when deciphered, would reveal an unknown knowledge of how nature works. In 1675 Newton annotated a copy of “Manna – a disquisition of the nature of alchemy”, an anonymous treatise which had been given to him by his fellow scholar Ezekiel Foxcroft. In his annotation Newton reflected upon his reasons for examining Solomon’s Temple by writing:
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