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auriferœ, quam chemiam vocant, 3 vols. in 1 (Basel: Conrad
Waldkirch, 1610), p. 229.
19. The list is from Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, A History of
Chemical Theories and Laws (New York: Arno, 1975), 2.0.
20. Jean Chretien Ferdinand Hoefer, Histoire de la chimie, 2 vols. (Paris:
Bureau de la revue scientifique, 1842–43), vol. 2, p. 398.
21. Jean-Paul Marat, Recherches physiques sur le feu (Paris:
Cl.Ant.Jombert, 1780).
22. Marcelin Berthelot, Les Origines de I’alchimie (Paris: Steinheil, 1885),
267–68; and Pattison Muir, History of Chemical Theories, op. cit., 10
and n. 1.
23. Pattison, Muir, History of Chemical Theories, op. cit., 6, 9.
24. Jungius, Zwei Disputationen über die Prinzipien der Naturkörper,
translated by Emil Wohlwill (Hamburg: Hartung, 1928); Boyle, The
Sceptical Chymist (London: J. Cadwell for J.Crooke, 1661). The
original of Jungius’s book is Disputationem de principiis naturalium
(Hamburg: Heinrich Werner, 1642).
25. Vladimír Karpenko, “The Discovery of Supposed New Elements:
Two Centuries of Errors,” Ambix 27 no. 2 (1980):79–102.
26. Khunrath, Naturgemes-Alchymisch Symbolum, order, gahr kurtze
Bekentnus (Hamburg: Heinrich Binders Erben, durch Philip von
Ohr, 1598), 6. For Khunrath see Christian Gottlob Joecher,
Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, 7 vols. (Hildesheim: Georg Olm,
1960 [1750–51]), vol. 2, pp. 2081–82.
27. Josten, “William Backhouse of Swallowfield,” Ambix 4 no. 1 (1949):
1–33, especially 9.
28. Josten, “A Translation of John Dee’s ‘Monas Hieroglyphica’
(Antwerp, 1564), With an Introduction and Annotations,” Ambix
12 nos. 2–3 (1964):84–221, especially 160–61.
29. An example is analyzed in my Pictures of the Body (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, forthcoming).
30. “…vous tirerez vne eau du plus beau jaune du monde.” The recipe
is from Joseph Du Chesne (Josephus Quercetanus, Joseph Du
Chesne, Sieur de la Violette], Recueil des plus curieux et rares secrets
touchant la medicine metallique et minerale (Paris: Simeon Piget,
[1648]), 63–65; translated as Metallic and Mineral Medicines, in the
series Restorers of Alchemical Manuscripts Society, edited by
Hans Nintzel (Richardson, Texas: Self-published, 1986), 14.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
NOTES TO CHAPTER I 213
1. Helena Maria Elisabeth de Jong, Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an
Alchemical Book of Emblems (Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1969), 206. The