Volume 2

Bibliotheca chemica : a catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris ... / by John Ferguson.

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Date:
1906
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    LANGE (Johann). Continued. According to one account Lange was from Silesia and was ' Pfalzischer Leibarzt,’ but Jocher says he was ‘ Candidatus Medicince ’ and practi- tioner at Hamburg, and that nothing is known of his life except that he was alive in 1695, and that he maintained himself by translating into German a large number of works, sometimes with, at other times without his name, or with the initials J. L., or J. L. M[edicinas] C[andidatus], or the pseudonym Hippodamus or Hoppodamus, where- with he has been credited. The list of them given by him has been made more precise by Rotermund, who has added the place, date, and size of each, and says that Lange was still alive in 1696. Many of his translations are from English, with which he seems to have been familiar, but others imply that he was acquainted with Latin-, French, Dutch, and possibly Spanish and Italian. The translations include works by Bunyan (Pilgri?n’s Progress, 1685), Bekker’s World bewitched, sermons, religious and moral treatises, works on medicine, &:c,, &c., besides a considerable proportion on chemistry and alchemy. The following is a list of these as given by Rotermund. One to which a query is attached seems doubtful as to whether it is about alchemy or not. Some of the titles are expanded from Jocher and from actual copies. Philalethae introitus apertus ad occlusum regis palatium, Amstelod. 1667, in 8 {edited by J. L.). Chymisches Zweyblatt, Hamburg, 1672, 8. Wunderliche Begebenheiten eines Philosophi in Suchung und Findung des Steins der Weisen, Hamburg, 1673 and 1690, 8. Zwey chymische Tractatlein Philalethae und Ferrari!, Hamb. 1673, 8. Von Verwandlung der Metalle, Hamburg, 1675, 8. Edv. Bolnesti aurora chymica, Hamburg, 1675, 8 (edited by J. L.). Guil. Klarkii historia naturalis nitri, Ib. 1675, 8 (edited by J. L.). Thom. Nicols Edelsteinbiichlein, Ebend. 1675, 8. J. Maria Meurdrac mitleidende und leichte Chymie, Frankfurt, 1676, 8. Alvaro Alonso Barba Bergbtichlein, Hamb. 1676,8. Edv. Kellaeus de lapide philosophorum. Ibid. 1676, 8 (edited by J. L.). F. Bas. Valentini chymischeSchriften, Eb. 1677, 8. Nick Flamelli chymische Werke, Ebendas, 1681,8. Rob. Boylen liiftige Noctiluca, Ebendas, 1682, 8. Corn. Lancilotti brennender Salamander, Frank- furt, 1682, 8. Roth-Scholtz, Bibliotheca Chemica, 1727, p. 42. Moller, Cimbria literata, 1744, ii. p. 441. Jocher, Allgenieines Gelehrten-Lexico7i, 1750, ii. col. 2252 ; Rotermund's Fortsetzung und Fngdn- zungen, 1810, iii. col. 1216. Arnold! de Villanova chymische Schriften, Ebend. und Hamb. 1683, 8. Mich. Sendigovii [sic] Leben, Hamb. 1683, 12. Kenelmy (sic) Digby Geheimnisse, Ebend. 1684, in 8. Beschreibung der Coffy, Th6e, Chocolate und Tobacks, Ebend. 1684, 12. Entwurf von Alcahest, Ebend. 1684, 12. Kern der Chymie, Leipzig, 1685, 8. Erklarung liber die sechs chymischen Pforten Georg Riplaei, Hamb. 1689, 8. Fr. Merc. v. Helmont Paradoxal Discurse (sic). Ibid. 1691, 8. Paradeistafel, Hamb. 1692, 8. (?) Drey chymische Bucher, Hamb. 1692, 8. Kinderbett des Steins der Weisen, Ebend. 1692, 8. Rod. Goclenii physiognomische und chiroman- tische Anmerkungen, Eb. 1692, 8. Mr. del’Emeri cursus Chymicus, Hamb. 1694, 8. Lancellotti Colsons Tr. von Erlangung des Steins der Weisen, Hamb. 1696, 8. After consideration of the foregoing list and of the clear statement of Jocher, Rotermund, and others as to the significance of the initials J. L. and J. L. M. C., namely, that they stand for Johann Lange, it is not requisite to dwell on the misinterpretation of them in the article on Edward Kelley in the Dictionary of National Biography, where they are supposed to denote John Lilly and Meric Casaubon. Meric Casaubon died in 1671, but the initials J. L. M. C. appeared as late as 1697. Nor is it necessary to point out that the reading is not ‘ J- L. et M, C.,’ but that it indicates one person only; that the reading in the case of Kelley’s book is 'curante’ not ‘curantibus,’ and that of the preceding list the German books bearing the initials were certainly not translated by Lilly and Casaubon. As for John Lilly I do not know who he was, for there is no one of that name, so far as I am aware, likely to have edited Kelley's book. Is it possible that the influence of the initials them- selves has caused John Lilly to be inadvertently put for William Lill}-. the astrologer, who may have been the person in the writer’s mind? The fact that among the authorities in the article on Edward Kelley there is quoted ‘Dr. John Lilly’s Autobio- biography,’ .seems to indicate that it is the astrologer w'ho is intended, for it is in his autobiography that Kelley is introduced. Gmelin, Geschichte der Cheynie, 1797, i. p. 344: 1798, ii. pp. 7, II, 12. Ladrague, Bibliothbque Ouvaroff, Sciences Seerbtes, 1870, No. iifiS. Kopp, Die Alchemie, 1886, ii. pp. 335, 338, 347, 381. LANGELOTT (Joel). Send-Schreiben von der Chymie. .See ROTH-SCHOLTZ (friederich), Deutsches Theatrum Chemicum, 1730, ii. p. 381. Joel Langelott (or Langellot, or Langellott, and also Lancellotus, by Witte) was born 12 Oct., 1617, at Ordorf in Thuringia, where his father Conrad was a dyer and burgomaster. He studied medi- cine at Jena, Rostock, and Copenhagen, as w'ell as at Leyden, graduated in 1642, and received a call to Gottorp as chemist. He travelled in England, and became court physician in 16470!Frederick IV., Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. In 1648 he was made private physician of the Duke and of his son. He died 8 Dec., 1680. The above epistle was addressed to the Academia Naturae Curiosorum ; Epistola ad Natures Curiosos de quibusdam in chymia preeterynissis, Hamburg, 1672, small 8vo, pp. 32. The epistle was published in German at Nurn- berg, 1672. A number of papers on medical topics appeared in the Miscellanea of the Academia Naturae Curio- sorum Ann. iii. vi. and vii. His Chymia Physica is contained in Eman. Koenig’s Thesaurus remedi- orum e triplici regno.
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