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Michael Sendivogius

A New Light of Alchemy

With the Dialogue of Mercury and the Treatise of Sulphur

A New Light of AlchemyJob 28 · Passage 1

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Job 28 · Passage 1

Source reference
Latin witness
1606 pp. 165

Latin

Hiobi 28.

Habet argentum venarum suarum principia, et auro locus est, in quo conflatur. Ferrum de terra tollitur, et lapis solutus calore in aes vertitur.

English

Job 28

Silver has the sources of its veins, and gold has a place in which it is smelted. Iron is taken from the earth, and stone dissolved by heat is turned into copper.

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.