Aphorismi Urbigerani

Name: Aphorismi Urbigerani
Author: Baro Urbigerus

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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Aphorismi UrbigeraniXXVIII–XLIII: Water, Fire and Preparation · Modern English

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XXVIII–XLIII: Water, Fire and Preparation · Modern English

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Original English

XXXII. In case you should commit so great an Error in the performance of this first Distillation, althô it will never be in your power to prepare the Mercury Duplex of the Philosophers, unless you should begin the whole Work again from the very Beginning; yet, if you have any farther Skill in our Art, you may easily prepare our Mercury simplex, with which you will effect great and miraculous things.

Modern English

XXXII. If you commit so great an error in performing this first distillation, you will never be able to prepare the philosophers’ double mercury unless you begin the whole work again from the very beginning. Nevertheless, if you have further skill in our art, you may readily prepare our simple mercury, with which you will accomplish great and miraculous things.

About This Reading Edition

The complete 1690 Aphorismi Urbigerani: historical frontispiece and Latin inscriptions, title and licence, dedication, all 101 grand-elixir aphorisms, the complete Circulatum Minus with its title, address and 31 vegetable aphorisms, and the full explanatory postscript with both printed endings. Original and modern English readings, fresh Latin translations, 115 annotations and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Baro Urbigerus, Aphorismi Urbigerani, London: Henry Faithorne, 1690; with Circulatum Minus Urbigeranum and the concluding postscript. The Getty Research Institute copy supplies the governing images; EEBO-TCP A25684 supplies the structured transcription witness, corrected against those images. The frontispiece signed W. F. is attributed in library catalogues to William Faithorne.

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