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The Golden Chain of Homer
A New Translation from the German Edition of 1723
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I.22 · The Generation of Plants
German & Latin
1723 pp 123Arbor Generationis Vegetabilium. 1. Sperma, sive siccum semen, inde in terra resolutum, aquosum, Die vegetabilische Gur. 2. Formatio radicis. 3. Formatio caulis & foliorum ramosorum. 4. Formatio florum. 5. Formatio seminis mollis, seu nodus, quando se flores in seminificationem nodosam glomerant. 6. Formatio & induratio seminis & perfecta ejus coagulatio.
Tree of vegetable generation. Original printed page 123; its six stages are translated in the preceding passage.
Source: Aurea Catena Homeri (1723), Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung, Zürich; digitised by e-rara. Public-domain original. https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-3819
The Golden Chain of Homer: I.22 · The Generation of Plants
1723 pp 123Tree of vegetable generation. 1. The sperm, or dry seed, subsequently dissolved in the earth and made watery: the vegetable Gur. 2. Formation of the root. 3. Formation of the stalk and branching leaves. 4. Formation of the flowers. 5. Formation of the soft seed, or knot, when the flowers gather into a knotted formation of seed. 6. Formation and hardening of the seed and its perfect coagulation.
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Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · I.22 · The Generation of Plants · B1C22S001 · 1723 pp 123
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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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