| Promethean ambitions: alchemy and the quest to perfect nature WR Newman University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 560 | 2019 |
| Atoms and alchemy: Chymistry and the experimental origins of the scientific revolution WR Newman University of Chicago Press, 2010 | 398 | 2010 |
| Alchemy vs. chemistry: the etymological origins of a historiographic mistake1 WR Newman, LM Principe Early science and medicine 3 (1), 32-65, 1998 | 357 | 1998 |
| Alchemy tried in the fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the fate of Helmontian chymistry WR Newman, LM Principe University of Chicago Press, 2005 | 354 | 2005 |
| Gehennical fire: The lives of George Starkey, an American alchemist in the scientific revolution WR Newman University of Chicago Press, 2003 | 243 | 2003 |
| Some problems with the historiography of alchemy LM Principe, WR Newman Secrets of nature: Astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe, 385-431, 2001 | 224 | 2001 |
| The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber: a critical edition, translation and study WR Newman Brill, 1991 | 199 | 1991 |
| Secrets of nature: astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe WR Newman, A Grafton MIT Press, 2001 | 172 | 2001 |
| Technology and alchemical debate in the late Middle Ages W Newman Isis 80 (3), 423-445, 1989 | 165 | 1989 |
| The artificial and the natural: an evolving polarity B Bensaude-Vincent, WR Newman MIT Press, 2007 | 129 | 2007 |
| Late medieval and early modern corpuscular matter theories C Lüthy, J Murdoch, W Newman Brill, 2022 | 107 | 2022 |
| Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's" secret Fire" WR Newman Princeton University Press, 2018 | 95 | 2018 |
| The alchemical sources of Robert Boyle's corpuscular philosophy WR Newman Annals of Science 53 (6), 567-585, 1996 | 91 | 1996 |
| From alchemy to ‘chymistry’ WR Newman The Cambridge history of science 3, 497-517, 2006 | 76 | 2006 |
| An overview of Roger Bacon’s alchemy WR Newman Roger Bacon and the Sciences, 317-336, 1997 | 57 | 1997 |
| Introduction: the problematic status of astrology and alchemy in premodern Europe WR Newman, A Grafton Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, 1-37, 2001 | 52 | 2001 |
| Experimental corpuscular theory in Aristotelian alchemy: from Geber to Sennert WR Newman Late Medieval and early modern corpuscular matter theories, 291-329, 2001 | 46 | 2001 |
| «Decknamen or pseudochemical language»? Eirenaeus Philalethes and Carl Jung WR Newman Revue d'histoire des sciences, 159-188, 1996 | 46 | 1996 |
| New light on the identity of" Geber" W Newman Sudhoffs Archiv, 76-90, 1985 | 44 | 1985 |
| What have we learned from the recent historiography of alchemy? WR Newman Isis 102 (2), 313-321, 2011 | 43 | 2011 |
