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Author Sędziwój, Michał, approximately 1556-approximately 1646.

Title Novum lumen chymicum. English
A new light of alchymie : taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience ; to which is added a treatise Of sulphur / written by Micheel Sandivogius : i. e. Anagram matically, Divi leschi genus amo. Also Nine books of the nature of things / written by Paracelsus, viz. Of the generations, growthes, conservations, life : death, renewing, transmutation, separation, signatures, of naturall things. Also a Chymicall dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors / all which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F.M.D.

Imprint London : Printed by Richard Cotes, for Thomas Williams ..., 1650.

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 Stauffer Rare Book Room  QD25 .S43913 1650  LIB USE ONLY
Description [16], 147, [5], [8], 145, [1], [50] p. : 19 cm.
Note Signatures: A2-A3, A3-V2, Aa2-Aa3, Aa2-Ss3, Aaa2-Fff3.
First work is a translation of Sędziwój's Novum lumen chymicum; the second of Paracelsus' De natura rerum ix bücher.
The Chymical dictionary is largely a translation of Gerhard Dorn's Dictionarium Paracelsi, with omissions (cf. Ferguson, J. Bibliotheca chemica).
J. F. is John French (cf. Sudhoff).
Separate t. p.: "Of the nature of things, nine books: written by Philipp Theophrastus of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus: the titles of the nine bookes. Of the generations, growths, conservations, life, death, renewing, transmutations, separations, signatures of naturall things."
Separate t. p.: "A chymicall dictionary: explaining the hard places and vvords met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authours."
Spine title: "New Light of Alchymie. Sandivogius. 1650."
Indexed In Wing (2nd ed.) S2506.
Sudhoff, K. Bibl. Paracelsica (1958) 365.
Contents A new light of alchymie. -- Of the nature of things : nine books ... / written by Philipp Theophrastus of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus. -- A chymicall dictionary : explaining the hard places and vvords met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authours.
Indexed In Neville, R. G., Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, volume 2, page 455 CHF #J. Hill
Gift Roy G. Neville; purchase; 2004.
Subject(s) Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Chemistry -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Sulfur -- Early works to 1800.
Alternate Author French, John, 1616-1657.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Natura rerum ix bücher. English.
Dorn, Gerhard, active 16th century Dictionarium Paracelsi.
Related Title Of the nature of things, nine books.
A chymicall dictionary.