Royal Society Miscellaneous Manuscript 6/5: Alchemical notes in ...

Dubious readings are given in curly brackets with an italicised question mark:
{inpræparatus?}.
Catchwords are presented thus: {catchword: nostra}.
Folio numbers are given in curly brackets in bold: {1r}. There are no folio or page
numbers in the manuscript itself.
Interlinear and marginal insertions are placed in angle brackets < >.
Deleted text is presented in strikethrough.
Normally, one line is left blank between paragraphs. Where Newton has left an
unusually large gap between paragraphs, two lines are left blank.
Indentation of paragraphs (or the lack of it) is given as it appears in the manuscript.
Any other editorial commentary is given in the endnotes.
Newton uses the following more or less conventional symbols in the text:
☼ Sol/sun, i.e. gold
� Luna/moon, i.e. silver
� Mercurius/mercury (either the planet or the metal)
♀ Venus, i.e. copper
♂ Mars, i.e. iron
� Jove/Jupiter, i.e. tin
� Saturn, i.e. lead
� sulphur
� antimony/antimonium