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35. A theory of pictorial chaos is advanced in my Pictures, and the
Words that Fail Them (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming).
36. Said, Beginnings, Intention and Method (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1978).
NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
NOTES TO CHAPTER I 211
1. Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy, translated by William Studdart
(London: Vincent Stuart and John M.Watkins Ltd., 1967), reprinted
(Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, 1986), 139. The
original is Burckhardt, Alchimie, Sinn und Weltbild (Olten,
Switzerland: Walter-Verlag, 1960).
2. There is some truth to this: for actual techniques of gold
extraction, see Orson Cutler Shepard and Walter Dietrich, Fire
Assaying (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1940); and C.W.Ammen,
Recovery and Refining of Precious Metals (New York: Van Nostrand
Reinhold, 1984).
3. Mircea Eliade, Forgerons et alchimistes (Paris: Flammarion, 1956),
translated by Stephen Corrin as The Forge and the Crucible: The
Origins and Structure of Alchemy (New York: Harper and Row,
1971).
4. Die Akhemie des Andreas Libavius, edited by the Gmelin-Institut für
Anorganische Chemie und Grenzgebiete in der Max-Planck-
Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaft, in Verbindung mit
der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Frankfurt am Main
(Weinheim: Verlag Chimie, 1964), Trakt 1, Kap. L[XLIX], p. 315.
5. Marius: On the Elements, edited by R.C.Dales (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1976), 152–53.
6. For example Paracelsus, Liber metallorum, in Theophrast von
Hohenheim genannt Paracelsus Sämtliche Werke, edited by Karl
Sudhoff and W.Matthiessen, 14 vols. (Munich and Berlin:
R.Oldenbourg, 1922–33), vol. 13, pp. 134–37: “ignis, sal, und
balsamis [mercury].” This is cited in Massimo Luigi Bianchi, “The
Visible and the Invisible: From Alchemy to Paracelsus,” Alchemy
and Chemistry in the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Proceedings of the
Warburg Colloquium, 1989, edited by in Piyo Rattansi and
Antonio Clericuzio (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994), 17–50, especially 39
n. 41.
7. Die Alchimie des Andreas Libavius, op. cit., Trakt 1, Kap. L[XLIX], p.
315.
8. Burckhardt, Alchemy, op. cit. (English edition), 144–45.
9. Edward Whitmont, “Non-Causality as a Unifying Principle of
PsychosomaticsSulphur,” lo 31 (1983):190, quoting Jung, “De