The world of Newton scholarship changed dramatically with the publication of B. J. T. Dobbs’s <i>Foundations of Newton’s Alchemy</i> in 1975.  Interestingly, Dobbs completed the book as her UNC Chapel Hill dissertation only a year or so before that.  Meanwhile, some fifty miles away I would soon begin studying the history of alchemy under the aegis of Ted Benfey, and the two of us would in due course meet the other major scholar of Newton’s alchemical involvement, Karin Figala, in Munich.  It is appropriate, then, to give a recounting of the mutations in the historiography of Newton’s alchemy, especially since my own book on the subject appeared in the last few months. <br/>

Traveling with Ted Benfey: Greensboro, Munich, and Newton

2019 Fall National Meeting

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