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1723 scan 448–449Pag. 115. lin. 7. pro Sperma mucilaginosum leg. Spermata mucilaginosa. ibid. lin. 18. del. Olea. Pag. 117. lin. 3. pro so klärer leg. so klar / ja klärer. lin. 8. pro trockenes oder leg. trocken. Pag. 118. lin. 18. pro flüchtigen leg. flüchtigern. lin. 23. et 24. pro behalt und unbehauenen leg. zahmen und wilden. Pag. 119. lin. 13. pro gefiederte leg. geweihte. lin. 21. pro und feuchter leg. feister. Pag. 120. lin. 21. pro Samen leg. Stamm. lin. 25. nach bestehet add. was es sey? Pag. 121. lin. 11. et 12. pro für viel tausend leg. der hundert. Pag. 122. lin. 2. pro faulen leg. todten. lin. 4. nach putrefactiones add. und solutiones. lin. 26. nach macht add. dem vegetabilischen das mineralische so abgeschmackt. Pag. 123. lin. 14. pro mollis leg. in nodis. Pag. 125. lin. 29. biß 31. leg. Die Wurtzel nun ist der vegetabilische Magnet / welcher die Speise aus der Erden ziehet und den zukommenden Regen attrahiret. Pag. 126. lin. 2. pro examination leg. anatomia und examen. lin. 29. pro nutrimenta von leg. nutrimenta und excrementa. Pag. 127. lin. 29. pro sublimiret leg. subtilisiret.
The Golden Chain of Homer: Original Variant Readings and Corrections
1723 scan 448–449Page 115, line 7: read the plural “mucilaginous seeds” for the singular “mucilaginous seed”; line 18: delete “oils.” Page 117, line 3: “as clear, indeed clearer” for “so much clearer”; line 8, “dry” for “dry or.” Page 118, line 18: “more volatile” for “volatile”; lines 23–24, “tame and wild” for the printed phrase “behalt und unbehauenen.” Page 119, line 13: “antlered” for “feathered”; line 21, “fatter” for “and moister.” Page 120, line 21: “stock” for “seed”; line 25, after “consists,” add “what it is?” Page 121, lines 11–12: “a hundred” for “many thousands.” Page 122, line 2: “dead” for “rotten”; line 4, after “putrefactions,” add “and solutions”; line 26, after “makes,” add “the mineral so tasteless to the vegetable.” Page 123, line 14: “in the nodes” for “soft.” Page 125, lines 29–31: read “The root, then, is the vegetable magnet, which draws nourishment from the earth and attracts the incoming rain.” Page 126, line 2: “anatomy and examination” for “examination”; line 29, “nutriments and excrements” for “nutriments of.” Page 127, line 29: “subtilises” for “sublimates.”
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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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