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The Author’s Preface
German & Latin
1723 scan 16–17Ist auch einem Artisten nicht nutz / die Zierde der Worte zu betrachten / und daß er die schönen constructiones harmonicas desideriret / sondern seinen Beutel und Gesundheit und deren Interesse zum Guten wende / daß er die Theoriam mit gegenwärtiger Praxi practicam mit Kopff und Händen werckstellig / sicht und greiffbar mache. Sonsten aber / wo es nur in einem theoräischen Hirn stecken bleibet / so kan er sich zwar einen Disputanten aber nicht Practicanten nennen.
The Golden Chain of Homer: The Author’s Preface
1723 scan 16–17Nor does it benefit a practitioner to attend to verbal ornament and long for beautiful, harmonious constructions. Rather, let him turn his concern to the good of his purse and health, so that with head and hands he makes theory practical through the practice presented here, bringing it into effect, visible and tangible. Otherwise, if it remains lodged only in a theorising brain, he may indeed call himself a disputant, but not a practitioner.
Socrates
Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · The Author’s Preface · PRE04S004 · 1723 scan 16–17
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The two-book alchemical work of 1723 in German with a new English translation, 399 notes, eight historical diagrams, chapter outlines, keyword essays, a glossary, bibliography, subject index, and 400 discussion questions.
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Anonymous, Aurea Catena Homeri. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Georg Böhme, 1723. Traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; the attribution remains uncertain. Historical diagrams from the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung copy digitized by e-rara.
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