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Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

Treatises on the True Salt and the Universal Spirit of the World

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1621 Unnumbered title page · scans FR004

TRAITTEZ DE L'HARMONIE ET CONSTITUTION GENERALLE DU VRAY SEL, secret des Philosophes, & de l'Esprit universelle du Monde, suivant le troisiesme Principe du Cosmopolite. OEUVRE NON MOINS CURIEUX que profitable, traittant de la cognoissance de la vraye medecine Chimique. Recueilly par le sieur de NUISEMENT, Receveur general du Comté de Ligny en Barrois. A PARIS. Chez IEREMIE PERIER ET ABDIAS BUISARD, tenans leur boutique à la Cour du Palais vers les Horlogers. M. DC. XXI. AVEC PRIVILEGE DU ROY.

1621 Unnumbered title page · scans FR004

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: The Original Title Page

1621 Unnumbered title page · scans FR004

TREATISES ON THE HARMONY AND GENERAL CONSTITUTION OF THE TRUE SALT, the secret of the philosophers, and of the universal spirit of the world, following the third principle of the Cosmopolite. A WORK AS CURIOUS AS IT IS USEFUL, treating the knowledge of true chymical medicine. Compiled by the Sieur de Nuysement, receiver general of the County of Ligny in Barrois. PARIS. At the shop of Jérémie Périer and Abdias Buisard, in the Cour du Palais near the clockmakers. 1621. WITH THE KING’S PRIVILEGE.

1621 Unnumbered title page · scans FR004

About This Reading Edition

The complete French text of 1621 with a new English translation, all three books, preliminary texts, nine concluding sonnets, original errata, 299 annotations and the complete supplied study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement, Traittez de l’harmonie et constitution generalle du vray sel, secret des Philosophes, & de l’Esprit universelle du Monde. Paris: Jérémie Périer and Abdias Buisard, 1621. The governing witness is the BnF/Gallica reproduction, ark:/12148/bpt6k656273. The reproduced privilege is dated 6 November 1620; the separate eighty-page Poème philosophic of 1620 is outside this edition.

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The historical text printed in 1621 is in the public domain. The supplied 2026 French reading text, new English translation, introduction, notes and complete study apparatus are published with the site owner’s authorization.