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35. John Maxson Stillman, The Story of Alchemy and Early Chemistry
(New York: Bover, 192.4), reprinted (New York: Dover, 1960), 321.
36. In Aristotle they are “contraries,” εναντια or “differentiæ,”
διαΦoραι. See Mary Louise Gill, Aristotle on Substance, The Paradox
of Unity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 68.
37. Robert Fludd, Anatomies ampitheatrum effigie triplici, more et
conditione varia (Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1623), 25; Fludd,
Philosophia Moysaica (Gouda: Petrus Rammazenius, 1638),
translated as Mosaicall Philosophy (London: H.Moseley, 1659), 69
ff.; and Allen G.Debus, “Renaissance Chemistry and the Work of
Robert Fludd,” in Alchemy and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century
(Los Angeles: William Andres Clark Memorial Library, 1966), 1–
29, 2.8 n. 32, which lists these sources.
38. Some of these are from Antoine-Joseph Pernety, Dictionnaire mythohermétique,
dans lequel on trouve les allegories fabuleuses des poètes, les
métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes (Paris:
s.n., 1758), v. “nature,” 324–25. The rivers of Eden are from D.L.B.,
Traité de la poudre de projection, divisé en deux lettres (Brussels: s.n.,
1707), 5. For the latter see Denis Duveen, Bibliotheca alchemica et
chemica. An Annotated Catalogue of Printed Books on Alchemy,
Chemistry and Cognate Subjects in the Library of Denis I.Duveen
(London: E.Weil, 1949), reprinted (London: Dawsons of Pall Mall,
1965), 586.
39. In the alchemy of Ga‘far al Sādiq, the three principles are treated in
order, and then united, avoiding the internal contradictions of
methods that alternate between three principles and four elements.
See Julius Ruska, Arabische Alchemisten, II. Ga‘far al Sādiq, der
Sechste Imām, Heidelberger Akten der Von-Portheim Stiftung, vol.
10 (Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1924),
56–57.
40. D.L.B., Traité de la poudre, op. cit., 13.
41. Albertus Magnus, De ortu et metallorum materia, in Theatrum
chemicum, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 123.
42. “In profundo naturæ mercurii est sulfur.” From Chrysopoiea: Being
a Dissertation on the Hermetical Science (London, 1745), II. The
author is quoting Bernard Trevisan, who was quoting Gābir.
43. Basil Valentine, Der Triumph-Wagen antimonii, edited by Johann
Tholden (Hamburg [not Leipzig, as it is usually given]: J.Apels,
1604), in Latin as Currus Triumphalis Antimonii (Toulouse: Petrum
Bosc, 1646), 1–114. There are at least three English translations, all
as far as I have seen from the Latin version: see The Triumphant
Chariot of Antimony, translated by I.H. Oxon [John Harding]
(London: Printed for W.S., 1661); or The Triumphal Chariot of