Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1726/27)

This week, bidding shall conclude on these (see below) wondrous pages of manuscript from the works of noted alchemy master, Sir Isaac Newton. We have Sotheby's to thank for this distraction (current bid as of the writing of this post is 280,000 GBP). Be there or be geometrically challenged.

What's the story on these wonderfully burnished vellums? A Pomeranian.

 According to numerous accounts, while Newton was immersed in study, a knock-at-the door prompted his Pom ("Diamond") to skedaddle about in excitement & delight. It is not at all difficult to imagine a busybody-Pom launching on-to or off-of a table, yipping, yapping & delivering the ear-drum-splitting cacophony of sound indigenous only to Poms. We see Diamond overturning a candle & setting  months of Isaac Newton's study into the sacred geometry of pyramids alight...well...

The obvious alchemical allegory cannot be denied, as this is one act of The Great Work...& as such, we can only speculate. 

Newton reputedly exclaimed: " Oh Diamond! Diamond!  Little do you know the mischief you have done me!"...

In Thomas Carlyle's book (loaded with masonic-rite double, triple & quadruple-entendres) The French Revolution , you'll find reference to Newton & Diamond under: Chapter 1.1.11 "Realised Ideals"...(I have included the entire book for you below!...scroll to page 14..).

Thank you, project Gutenberg for your exquisite, online e-library. I love you.