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The Historical Title · Passage 1
German
Centrum Naturae Concentratum
Centrum Naturae Concentratum. Oder: Ein Tractat. Von dem Wiedergebohrnen Saltz, Insgemein und eigendlich genandt Der Weisen Stein, In Arabischen geschrieben Von Ali Puli, Einem Asiatischen Mohren, Darnach in Portugisische Sprache Durch H. L. V. A. H. Und ins Hochteutsche versetzt, und heraus gegeben Von Johann Otto Helbig, Rittern, Chur-Fürstl. Pfältzischen Rath, Leib-Medico, und bey der Heidelbergischen Universität Professore Publico. Gedruckt im Jahr 1682.
English
The Historical Title
German witness: 1682, unnumbered title, Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, 87 B 76050. Source facsimile: https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbihd/Drucke/content/pageview/4591549
The Concentrated Centre of Nature. Or a treatise on the regenerated salt, commonly and properly called the Philosophers’ Stone. Written in Arabic by Ali Puli, an Asiatic Moor; afterwards put into Portuguese by H. L. V. A. H.; and translated into High German and published by Johann Otto Helbig, knight, councillor and personal physician to the Elector Palatine, and public professor at Heidelberg University. Printed in the year 1682.
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The complete supplied German–English edition of the 1682 collection: the main treatise attributed to Ali Puli, Helbig’s preface, distinct companion discourses, the short potable-gold preparation and the anonymous Father’s Last Testament, with four historical figures, 103 annotations and the full Diotimos study apparatus.
Historical Text and Translation
The governing German witness is the complete 1682 collection in Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, shelfmark 87 B 76050, with an unnumbered title and printed pages 1–80. The historical title’s Arabic and Portuguese antecedents and its authorial persona are retained as claims, not authenticated originals. Johann Otto Helbig (Hellwig), Martin de Delle, J. J. F. and the anonymous testament retain their distinct historical roles.
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