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Baro Urbigerus

Aphorismi Urbigerani

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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LXIV–LXXIX: Principles and the Herculean Works · Grand Elixir · Aphorism LXVII

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Original English

LXVII. The Extraction, Purification, and Clarification of our Earth or Salt of Nature is to be perform'd by our Mercury simplex: which, being put upon the reverberated Earth, will presently draw it to it self, and unite it self with it, yet separable by gentle Distillation, after which the clarify'd Salt of the Philosophers is at hand.

Modern English

LXVII. The extraction, purification and clarification of our earth, or salt of nature, must be performed by our simple mercury. Placed on the reverberated earth, it will immediately draw that earth to itself and unite with it, yet it can be separated by gentle distillation. After this, the clarified salt of the philosophers is at hand.

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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