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Second Part. Proem — 55 Chapter I. On nature — 56 Chapter II. On the three philosophical principles — 84 Chapter III. On comets — 93 On thunder, lightning, and rain — 94 On earthquakes — 95 On wind — 97 On dew — 103 On the ebb and flow of the sea — 104 Chapter IV. On the generation of metals and how they are generated in the earth — 106 Chapter V. How precious stones are generated in the earth and mines — 116
Chapter VI. From what metals and precious stones arise in the earth. Here the truth of the Hermetic art is also proved by sufficient and irrefutable grounds, some never previously supplied by other philosophers — 121 Chapter VII. On the waters upon and within the earth — 156 Chapter VIII. On the water above heaven — 172 Chapter IX. On the effects of the physical tincture and perfect elixir — 179 Chapter X. What must chiefly be known and is required for this art; how to attain it; and how an investigator of the art must otherwise be qualified and constituted — 186
Chapter XI. On Theophrastus’s homunculi, and what to think of them — 194 Chapter XII. On King Solomon: whether he knew, possessed, and practised the Hermetic art — 199 Chapter XIII. Is light an accident or a substance? — 202 Chapter XIV. On the world and its end — 217 Conclusion — 233