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The Author’s Preface
German & Latin
1723 scan 15–16Aus gegenwärtigem Tractat aber soll er die schönste und simpleste Ordnung der Natur / eine regulirte Richtschnur haben / welche ihm nicht unanständig den Weg aller Gebährung und Zerstörung der natürlichen Dinge klar / wie man die Kinder das A. B. C. lehret / weisen wird / und überall sagen: Warum dieses oder jenes / wie / auf was Weise / und zu was Ende solches geschehe.
The Golden Chain of Homer: The Author’s Preface
1723 scan 15–16From the present treatise, however, he should gain nature’s most beautiful and simplest order as a measured guide. It will fittingly show him the path of every generation and destruction of natural things, as clearly as one teaches children their ABC, and will tell him everywhere why this or that happens, how, in what manner, and to what end.
Socrates
Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · The Author’s Preface · PRE04S002 · 1723 scan 15–16
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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.
Historical Text and Translation
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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