Author Sędziwój, Michał, approximately 1556-approximately 1646.

Title Novum lumen chymicum. English
A new light of alchymy : taken out of the fountain of nature and manual experience ; to which is added a treatise of sulphur / written by Micheel [sic] Sandivogius ... Also Nine books of the nature of things / written by Paracelsus ... Also A chymical dictionary explaining hard places and words met withal in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors / all of which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F., M.D.

Imprint London : Printed by A. Clark, for Tho. Williams ..., 1674.
Location Call Number Status
 Othmer Rare Books  QD25 .S43913 1674  LIB USE ONLY
 Rare Book Storage  QD25 .S43913 1674  LIB USE ONLY
Description 386p.:[16] 1-150 [151-160] 161-301 [302-304] 305-351 [352] ; 18 cm.
Note 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).
Signatures: 8⁰: A-Z⁸ [$4 signed (-A1)]
J.F. is John French (cf. Sudhoff).
Indexed In Wing (2nd ed.) S2507A.
Sudhoff, K. Bibl. Paracelsica (1958) 403
Contents A new light of alchymy -- Of the nature of things : nine books / written by Philipp Theophrastus, of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus. London : Printed by Andrew Clarke, for Thomas Williams ..., 1674 -- A chymical dictionary ... London : Printed by A.C. for T. Williams ..., 1674.
Gift Allen G. Debus Collection, 2016.
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.
Clark, Andrew, -approximately 1678, printer.
Williams, Thomas, -1678? bookseller.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541. De natura rerum, ix bücher. English.
Dorn, Gerhard, active 16th century Dictionarium Paracelsi.
Related Title Chymical dictionary.
Of the nature of things.