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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Treatises on the True Salt and the Universal Spirit of the World
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Original Errata for the Treatises on Salt
French
1621 Original errata leaf, verso · scans FR342Pag. 148. lig. 8. lisez quelques unes de leurs potions. Pag. 151. lig. 13. lisez, il a fallu que par necessité. Pag. 163. lig. 10. lisez plus igné & subtil. Pag. 166. l. 13. lisez, par experience que quelque pureté. Pag. 184. lig. 7. lisez, que cette vapeur imprime en tout. Pag. 196. lig. 10. lisez, & recourir patiemment. Pag. 210. lig. 11. lisez, la race des hommes quasi esteinte avant. Pag. 213. lig. 16. lisez, mais les premiers, assavoir le Ciel & la Terre. Pag. 217. lig. 7. lisez, les forces particulieres reconnuës par. Pag. 220. lig. 16. lisez, les auroit ainsi establies. Pag. 221. lig. premiere & seconde, lisez, angeliquement esclaircy la divinité. Pag. 222. lig. 8. ostez l'interrogant qui est apres ce mot edification. Pag. 250. lig. 10. lisez, à ce corps exanimé.
Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Original Errata for the Treatises on Salt
1621 Original errata leaf, verso · scans FR342Page 148, line 8: read quelques unes de leurs potions (‘some of their potions’). Page 151, line 13: read il a fallu que par necessité (‘it was necessary that, of necessity’). Page 163, line 10: read plus igné & subtil (‘more fiery and subtle’). Page 166, line 13: read par experience que quelque pureté (‘by experience that, whatever purity’). Page 184, line 7: read que cette vapeur imprime en tout (‘which this vapour imprints in everything’). Page 196, line 10: read & recourir patiemment (‘and patiently have recourse’). Page 210, line 11: read la race des hommes quasi esteinte avant (‘the human race almost extinguished before’). Page 213, line 16: read mais les premiers, assavoir le Ciel & la Terre (‘but the first, namely Heaven and Earth’). Page 217, line 7: read les forces particulieres reconnuës par (‘the particular powers recognised by’). Page 220, line 16: read les auroit ainsi establies (‘would have established them in this way’). Page 221, first and second lines: read angeliquement esclaircy la divinité (‘angelically illuminated the divinity’). Page 222, line 8: remove the question mark after edification (‘edification’). Page 250, line 10: read à ce corps exanimé (‘to this lifeless body’).
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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.
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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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