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Sulphur · Fire · Passage 15
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- Latin witness
- 1616 · sequence pages 37
Latin
Hic igitur habes Elementorum originem, et naturas eorum ac operationes quam brevissime descriptas, quod ad nostrum propositum hoc loco sufficit. Nam alias si quodlibet Elementum describeretur ut est, magnum volumen oriretur nostro proposito non necessarium. Ista omnia, ut diximus, ad Harmoniam remittimus, ubi Deo favente si nobis vita superstes erit, de naturalibus copiosius relinquemus.
English
Here then you have the origin of the elements and their natures and operations described as briefly as possible. That suffices for our present purpose. If each element were described as it is, a great volume would result, unnecessary to our purpose. As I have said, I reserve all this for the Harmony, where, God willing, if life remains to me, I shall leave a fuller account of natural matters.
Socrates
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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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