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Michael Sendivogius

A New Light of Alchemy

With the Dialogue of Mercury and the Treatise of Sulphur

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Treatise I · Original Witness Heading

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Latin witness
1606 pp. 86

Latin

Caput I. De natura quidnam ea sit, et quales eius debeant esse scrutatores?

Tractatus alter, de lapide Philosophico anonymi cuiusdam, lapidis Philosoph. possessoris.

English

Treatise I Nature What It Is and What Its Investigators Should Be

A second treatise on the philosophical stone, by a certain anonymous possessor of the philosophers’ stone.

About This Reading Edition

The complete supplied Latin–English edition of the Twelve Treatises, Epilogue, Enigma, Parable, Dialogue of Mercury and Treatise of Sulphur, with original preliminaries, John French’s historical English address and its separately labelled modernisation, 101 annotations and the complete study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

The Twelve Treatises and their concluding texts follow the selected 1606 Herzog August Bibliothek witness. The Dialogue uses the 1607 Cologne printing; the author’s preface and Alsted epigram use Frankfurt 1611. Sulphur uses the 1616 Munich and Rome witnesses. John French’s 1650 address is separately identified as historical English reception.

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The historical Latin texts and John French’s 1650 English address are in the public domain. The new translation, modernisation and editorial apparatus were prepared with AI assistance for Diotimos Editions in 2026 and are published with the site owner’s authorization.