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The Author’s Preface
German & Latin
1723 scan 17Derjenige nun / der sich vornimmt das Wesen aller natürlichen Dinge zu betrachten / deren Geburth / Leben und Tod / der soll und muß den Ursprung der Natur vom Anfange biß zum Ende wohl betrachten / das ist / wie und aus wem die Natur die hier in denen vier Elementen enthaltenen Dinge / jedes Ding insonderheit / als die meteora, Universalia, Thiere / Kräuter und Ertz gebähre / erhalte und wieder zerstöre / wie die Natur selbe solvirt / coagulirt / wieder resolvirt und regenerirt: Denn was die Natur macht / und durch was sie es ausmacht / durch eben dasselbe zerstöret sie alle Dinge wieder.
The Golden Chain of Homer: The Author’s Preface
1723 scan 17Whoever undertakes to consider the being of all natural things—their birth, life, and death—should and must carefully consider nature’s origin from beginning to end. That is, he must consider how and out of what nature brings forth, preserves, and again destroys the things contained here in the four elements, each thing in particular: meteors, universals, animals, plants, and ores; how nature dissolves them, coagulates them, dissolves them again, and regenerates them. For whatever nature makes, and whatever she makes it through, through that very same thing she destroys all things again.
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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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