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Sulphur · The Three Principles · Passage 1
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- 1616 · sequence pages 37
Latin
DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS OMNIUM RERUM.
DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS OMNIUM RERUM.
Descriptis hisce quatuor Elementis, ad tria principia rerum descendamus, quomodo autem illa producuntur ex quatuor Elementis sic accipe.
English
On the Three Principles of All Things
On the Three Principles of All Things
Having described these four elements, let us descend to the three principles of things. Understand how they are produced from the four elements as follows.
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.
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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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