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23 What the Generation of Minerals Is and Which Principles Constitute Them
German & Latin
1723 pp 212Wiewohl aber auf dieses so exact nicht zu mercken, nemlich den Punctum extremae Fixationis, dieweil jedes Reich ein sufficiens Fixativum hat, wie anderswo gelehret wird. Denn so einer figiren will, so muß er nicht zusammen nehmen volatilissimum & fixissimum, sondern volatile, fixum, fixissimum & Gradus medios: Dann so kommt man zum erwünschten Ende und alles per Homogenea magis quam Heterogenea.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 23 What the Generation of Minerals Is and Which Principles Constitute Them
1723 pp 212Yet this need not be observed with such exactness regarding the point of extreme fixation, because every kingdom has a sufficient fixing agent, as taught elsewhere. Whoever wishes to fix must not combine the most volatile and the most fixed, but the volatile, the fixed, the most fixed, and the middle degrees. Thus one reaches the desired end, and all this through homogeneous rather than heterogeneous things.
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Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 23 What the Generation of Minerals Is and Which Principles Constitute Them · B1C23S056 · 1723 pp 212
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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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