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Record Nr.

UNISA996391704803316

Autore

Sędziwój Michał <ca. 1556-ca. 1646.>

Titolo

A new light of alchymie [[electronic resource] ] : taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur: / / written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e. anagram matically, divi Leschi genus amo. Also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus, viz. Of the generations growthes conservations life: death renewing transmutation separation signatures of naturall things. Also a chymicall dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F. M.D

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Richard Cotes, for Thomas Williams, at the Bible in Little-Britain, 1650

Descrizione fisica

[16], 147, [13], 104, 107-145, [49] p

Altri autori (Persone)

FrenchJohn <1616-1657.>

Paracelsus <1493-1541.>

DornGerhard <16th cent.>

Soggetti

Natural history - Pre-Linnaen works

Alchemy Early works to 1800

Chemistry Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A translation of: Sędziwój, Michał.  Novum lumen chymicum.

J.F. = John French.

The words "generations .. death" and "renewing .. signatures" are enclosed in brackets on title page.

"Of the nature of things, nine books: written by .. Paracelsus", a translation of part of "Metamorphosis", and "A chymicall dictionary", based on "Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi" by Gerhard Dorn, have separate dated title pages; register re-commences at 2A and 3A respectively; the first work has separate pagination = Thomason E.604[4]; 'A chymicall dictionary' = Thomason E.604[5].

"The chymical dictionary is practically a translation of Dorn's Dictionarium Paracelsi ..."--John Ferguson. Bibliotheca chemica, v. 1, p. 257.



Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 26th".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018