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triplici, more et conditione varia (Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1623),
20–23.
11. Cleidophorus Mystagogus, Trifertes Sagani, Or Immortal Dissolvent
(London: W.Pearson, 1705), 11. Denis Duveen, Bibliotheca alchemica
et chemica (London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1965), 139, comments “I
must confess that a careful perusal of the work did not convey
sense to me.” Karin Figala, “Zwei Londoner Alchemisten um
1700: Sir Isaac Newton und Cleidophorus Mystagogus,” Physis 18
(1976):245–73, identifies Cleidophorus with a physician named
W.Y.Worth.
12. Medicinisch—chymisch—und alchymistische Oraculum (Ulm: s.n.,
1772), reprinted (Zurich: Bibliothèque Ethnographic et
Métaphysique, 1981).
13. This is a reduced and simplified version of Dee’s emblem, which
should be studied in its full complexity. See Dee, Monas
hieroglyphica in theatrium chemicum (Antwerp: G.Silvius,] and for an
example from a later century, see Francis Barrett, The Magus; or,
Celestial Intelligencer (London: Lackington, Allen, 1801), facsimile
edition (Leicester: Vance Harvey, 1970).
14. See Anton Joseph Kirchweger, attr., Aurea catena Homeri [1723],
edited by Hermann Kopp (Braunschweig: F.Vieweg, 1880). The
subject comes from a passage in Homer’s Iliad where Zeus brags
that if he let a chain down from heaven, all the other gods could
not pull him down, but he could pull all of them up. For an
alternate attribution of the Aurea catena, see Herwerd von
Forchtenbrunn of Croman, Moravia, attr., Annulus Platonis, oder,
physikalisch-chymische Erklärung der Natur [1781] (New Haven:
Research Publishers, 1973).
15. Joachim Tancke, Promptuarium alchemiœ, 2 vols. (Leipzig: Henning
Grossens, 1610–14), facsimile edition (Graz: Akademische Druck,
1976), vol. 2, pp. 298–311, especially 307.
16. Lull [Llull], Quid sit materia lapidis, MS, Florence, Biblioteca
nazionale centrale, Pal. 792, summarized in Michela Pereira, The
Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull, Warburg Institute
Surveys and Texts, no. 18 (London: Warburg Institute, 1989), 68.
17. Béroalde de Verville, Le Voyage des princes fortvnez, Oeuvre
steganographique, receuilli par B. (Paris: L.Gaultier, 1610); and his Le
Palais des Curieux (Paris: La Veufue M. Guillemot, 1612). For
further information see Neil Francis Kenny, “Béroalde de Verville:
Transformations of Philosophical Writing in the Late
Renaissance,” Ph.D. dissertation, Oxford University, 1987,
unpublished.
18. Lull, Libellus de mercurio solo, MS, Naples, Biblioteca nazionale,
VII.D.17, summarized in Pereira, The Alchemical Corpus, op. cit., 73.