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sulfure,” lecture before the Swiss Paracelsus Society, 21 December
1947, privately printed, n.p.
10. Jon Eklund, The Incompleat Chymist, Being an Essay on the Eighteenth-
Century Chemist in his Laboratory, With a Dictionary of Obsolete
Chemical Terms of the Period, Smithsonian Studies in History and
Technology, no. 33 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution,
1975), 38. After the mid-eighteenth century salt began to be
defined as a chemical process, the product of reactions between
acids and bases. That meaning is not the central one in alchemy.
11. Blaise de Vigenère, Traicté du feu et du set, 2nd ed. (Paris: Chez
Jacques Cailloue, 1642), 241. The first edition was 1608; there is
also an English translation, A Discovery of Fire and Salt (London:
Richard Cotes, 1649). Another important treatise is “Son of
Sendivogius” [pseud, for Michal Sedziwój=Sendivogius], Der
Verlangete Dritte Anfang der mineralischen Dinge, oder vom
philosophischen Saltz (Amsterdam: Christoffel Luycken, 1656); for
the attribution see Zbigniew Szydlo, Water Which Does Not Wet
Hands: The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius (Warsaw: Polish
Academy of Sciences, 1994), 145–55, Appendices C and H.
12. Die Alchimie des Andreas Libavius, op. cit., Trakt 1, Kap. L[XLIX], p.
315.
13. Paracelsus, De mineralibus, in Theophrast von Hohenheim, op. cit.,
vol. 3, p. 47, calls salt “balsam”: “sal…, das auch balsamum heißt.”
See Bianchi, “The Visible and the Invisible,” op. cit., 39 n. 43.
14. It is visible in a photograph in Thomas Perkins, Churches of Rouen
(London: George Bell and Sons, 1900).
15. Steven Z.Levine, Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist
Myth of the Self (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 168.
16. Abtala [Abdullah] Jurain [Aklila Warckadamison], Hyle und
Coahyl; Aus dem Aethiopischen ins Lateinische, und aus dem
Lateinischen in das teutsche translatiret und übergesetzet durch D.
Johann Elias Muller (Hamburg, 1732), chapter IX, translation
modified from Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1980 [1968]), 246–47.
17. Archidoxorum Aureoli Ph. Theophrasti Paracelsus de secretis naturæ
mysteriis libri decem (Basel: P.Pernam, 1570), lib. vi. There is also a
seventeenth-century translation: Paracelsus, Archidoxis, Comprised
in Ten Books, translated by John Harding (London: Thomas
Brewster, 1660).
18. Constantine of Pisa, Liber seretorum alchimie, c. 1257, translated as
The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy, edited by Barbara Obrist (Leiden:
E.J.Brill, 1990), 73. Translation mine except the last line, which is
from ibid., 235. See also Khalid, Liver trium verborum, in Artis