What is included with this book?
Introduction | |
Ancient: 1. Hermes Trismegistus: The Emerald Table (Tabula smaragdina) | |
2. Plato: from the Timaeus | |
3. Aristotle: from the Meteorology | |
4. Pseudo-Democritus: from the Treatise of Democritus on Things Natural and Mystical | |
5. Anonymous: Dialogue of Cleopatra and the Philosophers | |
6. Anonymous: from Leiden Papyrus X and the Stockholm Papyrus | |
7. Zosimos of Panopolis: Of Virtue, Lesson 1-3 | |
8. Stephanos of Alexandria: from The Great and Sacred Art of the Making of Gold | |
9. Anonymous: The Poem of the Philosopher Theophrastos upon the Sacred Art | |
Islamic and Medieval: 10. Khalid ibn Yazid: from Secreta Alchymiae | |
11. Pseudo-Geber: from Of the Investigation or Search of Perfection | |
Of the Sum of Perfection | |
and His Book of Furnaces | |
12. Avicenna: De Congelatione et Conglutinatione Lapidum | |
13. Albertus Magnus: from the Libellus de Alchimia | |
14. Roger Bacon: from the Radix Mundi | |
15. Nicolas Flamel: from His Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures | |
16. Bernard, Earl of Trevisan: A Treatise of the Philosophers Stone | |
17. George Ripley: The Epistle of George Ripley written to King Edward the 4 | |
Renaissance and Seventeenth Century: 18. Paracelsus: from Of the Nature of Things | |
Paracelsus His Aurora | |
19. Francis Anthony: Aurum-Potabile: or the Receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie | |
20. Michael Sendivogius: from A New Light of Alchymie | |
A Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature | |
21. Robert Fludd: from Mosaicall Philosophy | |
22. Gabriel Plattes: A Caveat for Alchymists | |
23. John French: preface to The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trimegistus in XVII Books | |
24. George Starkey/Eirenaeus Philalethes: The Admirable Efficacy, and almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl | |
from An Exposition Upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV | |
25. Elias Ashmole: Prolegomena to the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum | |
26. Robert Boyle: from An Historical Account of a Degradation of Gold Made by an Anti-Elixir: A Strange Chymical Narrative | |
27. Isaac Newton: The Key (Keynes MS 18) | |
The Commentary on the Emerald Tablet (Keynes MS 28), King's College, Cambridge. |
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