A ternary of paradoxes. The magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / Written originally by Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, and translated, illustrated, and ampliated by Walter Charleton.

  • Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
Date:
1650
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Credit: A ternary of paradoxes. The magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / Written originally by Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, and translated, illustrated, and ampliated by Walter Charleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the truly Noble, by the right of Blood, Virtue and Learning, VVILLIAM Vifcount Brouncker of Lyons, Baron Brouncker of Newcaftle, ec. | My vety good Lord, zem Mong other Difparagements of wil] this life, collected and (um'd up in Gl my frequent retirements and. con- 3l. centrations of my Minde,. my Thoughts have , more then once, pad “glanced on the exceeding vanity of that Heroick difeafe, incident to the be/t tempered Souls, the infatiate Appetite of pofthume Glory. And though I mu! not but confefs, this originary Feaver ele- mented in the innate Ardor and Scintillations of thofe Sparks of Divinity, which now lie raked up in the * Mafs or Chaos, of our eclipfed Nature ; and that by the light of thefe fecret Flafhes, may be difcovered the Im- mortality of that Semideity, or noble Bffence, fora while immured in walls of Clay: ‘yet when I make ree flettions on the unconcernment, and happy infenfility . of the Soul, once fled bome, to.anindifJoluble Union with A 3 the +