Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

Name: Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Author: Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

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

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Book Three

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1621 pp. 315 · scans FR315

Qui du grand corps du monde a fait l'anathomie, Imité des hauts Cieux l'Angelique harmonie Et qui a tout reduit aux equitables loix Du compas, de la reigle, & du nombre, & du poids.

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Book Three

1621 pp. 315 · scans FR315

The intellect that made an anatomy of the world’s great body, Imitated the angelic harmony of the high heavens, And brought everything under the just laws Of compass, rule, number and weight.

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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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