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The works of Geber, the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher / faithfully Englished by Richard Russel.
Jabir ibn HayyanDate: 1678- Books
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Paracelsus, his Archidoxis, or, chief teachings; comprised in ten books, disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c. Together with his books of renovation & restauration. Of the tincture of the philosophers. Of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone. Of the virtues of the members. Of the three principles. And finally his seven books, of the degrees and compositions of receipts, and natural things. Englished, by J.H. Oxon.
ParacelsusDate: 1663- Books
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Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming : in seven books : exemplified in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countreys and figures of various forms, the way of engraving, etching, and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments, the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities, the paintings of the antients ... : never published till now, together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting, and a discourse of perspective, chiromancy and alchymy,: to which is added, I, the one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a most learned and eminent physician, translated out of Latin into English, II, an abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies / by William Salmon.
William SalmonDate: 1685- Books
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[Magnalia naturæ:] or, The truth of the philosophers-stone asserted : having been lately expos'd to publick sight and sale. Being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus the late famous projection-maker, at the Emperours Court, at Vienna came by, and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection, by projecting with it before the Emperor, and a thousand vvitnesses, selling it, &c. for some years past. Published at the request, and for the satisfaction of several curious and ingenious, especially of Mr. Boyl, &c. By one who was not only a ey-witness in the affair, but also concern'd as a commissioner by the Emperor for the examen of it.
Johann Joachim BecherDate: 1686- Books
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Aphorismi Urbigerani, or, Certain rules, clearly demonstrating the three infallible ways of preparing the grand elixir, or circulatum majus of the philosophers : discovering the secret of secrets, and detecting the errors of vulgar chymists in their operations : contain'd in one hundred and one aphorisms, to which are added The three ways of preparing the vegetable elixir, or, Circulatum minus / all deduc'd from never-erring experience by Baro Urbigerus.
Baro UrbigerusDate: 1690