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Baro Urbigerus

Aphorismi Urbigerani

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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Aphorismi UrbigeraniXLIV–LXIII: Creation, Separation and the Third Way · Original

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XLIV–LXIII: Creation, Separation and the Third Way · Original

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Original English

LIX. If this our Mercury (the Proportion rightly observ'd) should be amalgamated with any imperfect Metal, being first determin'd with a fixt one, it will regenerate and perfect the same, not losing the least Particle of its Virtue or Quantity: Which Metal after the digestion of a Philosophical Month will (as most Philosophers teach) be able to resist all manner of Tryals, and will be far better than any Natural one.

Modern English

LIX. If this mercury of ours, with the proportion rightly observed, should be amalgamated with any imperfect metal, after first being determined by a fixed one, it will regenerate and perfect that metal without losing the least particle of its own virtue or quantity. After the digestion of a philosophical month, that metal will, as most philosophers teach, be able to withstand every kind of trial, and will be far better than any natural metal.

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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