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NOTES TO CHAPTER I 203
“Gnosticism and Alchemy,” Ambix 6 (1957–58):86–101.1 thank
Mike Dickman for bringing these to my attention.
27. Read, Prelude to Chemistry, op. cit., 26.
28. See especially a MS attributed to Raymond Lull, Commentum super
lapidem philosophorum, mentioned in Michela Pereira, The
Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull, Warburg Institute
Surveys and Texts, no. 18 (London: Warburg Institute, 1989), 68,
no. I.II.
29. Basil Valentine, Von den Natürlichen und ubernatürlichen Dingen.
Auch von der ersten Tinctur, Wurtzel und Geiste der Metallen und
Mineralien, edited by Johann Tholden (Leipzig: Bartholomæus
Voigt, 1624), 87–88. In the large literature on Basil Valentine see
first Karl Sudhoff, “Die Schriften des sogennanten Basilius
Valentinus: Ein Beitrag zur Bibliographic der Alchemie,”
Philobiblion 6 (1933):163–70; and J.R. Partington, A History of
Chemistry, 4 vols. (London: MacMillan and Co., 1961), vol. 2, pp.
190–95, especially 190 n. 7.
30. Leonhardt Thurneysser von Thurn, Historia Unnd Beschreibung
Influentischer, Elementischer und Natürlicher Wirckungen (Berlin:
Michael Hentsken, 1578); and see J.C.W.Moehlen, Beiträge zur
Geschichte der Wissenschaften in der Mark Brandenburg …1 Leben
Leonhard Thurneissers zum Thurn…II. Fragmente zur Geschichte der
Chirurgie von 1417 bis 1598…III. Verzeichnis der Dohm-und
Kollegiatstifter (Berlin and Leipzig: George Jakob Decker, 1783),
Part One reprinted as Leben Leonard Thurneissers zum Thurn
(Munich: Werner Fritsch, 1976). Thurneysser also wrote an
explicitly alchemical work; see Peter Morys, “Leonhard
Thurneissers De transmutatione veneris in solem [1585],” in Die
Alchemie in der europäischen Kulturund Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
edited by Christoph Meinet (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986), 85–
95.
31. Josten, “A Translation,” op. cit., 107, 158–59, translation modified.
32. Marius: On the Elements, op. cit., 128–31.
33. Turba philosophorum, originally in Artis auriferœ, op. cit. An English
translation is Alchemy, the Turba Philosophorum or Assembly of the
Sages, Called also the Book of Truth in the Art and the Third
Pythagorical Synod, translated by Arthur Edward Waite (London:
George Redway, 1896), reprinted (London: Vincent Stuart and
John M.Watkins, 1970), 11–12,.
34. In a Greek source they are given as “virgin earth, igneus earth,
carnal earth, and sanguineous earth,” and in the Turba more
simply as water, fire, earth, and air. Alchemy, the Turba
Philosophorum or Assembly of the Sages, op. cit., 21–22.