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Source and Editorial Credits
Governing Latin: the complete nine-book text with dedication and original marginal notes in the Frankfurt Palthenian collection of 1605, SUB Göttingen PPN578052199, pp. 198–271, scans 182–255. The library’s digitisation and catalogue are credited for access and provenance. The historical text is in the public domain. The library’s IIIF record carries Public Domain Mark 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
The present English translation and normalised Latin presentation were prepared for Diotimos Editions with AI assistance in 2026. John French’s public-domain English translation of 1650 was consulted as a historical comparison; no modern English translation has been reproduced. This is a newly typeset edition, not a reproduction of the library’s generated PDF cover or complete scan pages.
Modern attribution research and descriptive catalogues are acknowledged in the bibliography. The edition distinguishes the historical text and margins, translation choices in annotations, and the modern introduction and supporting essays. Every reading passage has a stable identifier and source locator. The nine-book scope does not include the preceding or following treatises in the 1605 collected volume, Sendivogius’s works, or the separate chymical dictionary.