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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordKhunrath's separate Athanor tract is named in a marginal direction to the reader.
- In KhunrathPage 95 mentions the author's own Athanor with an unburnable wick as suitable for the work being discussed.
- In this editionThe precise distinction is between 'see my tract' here and 'I have them in hand; may God let me finish' at page 58.
- A reading distinctionThe unburnable wick is named on page 95; the tract reference is on page 98.
Meaning
Khunrath's separate Athanor tract is named in a marginal direction to the reader. The reference differs from the expressly unfinished wonder-books: here the reader is simply told to see the tract.
Use in the book
Page 95 mentions the author's own Athanor with an unburnable wick as suitable for the work being discussed. The margin on page 98 points to his tract on the Philosophical Athanor beside the account of regeneration in the furnace. Together the references establish that he claims a particular furnace and a separate written treatment of it.
They do not describe its construction, supply operating measures, or establish publication status. Nor should the special construction be inferred from a familiar modern image of an athanor. The present treatise uses the reference to send the reader elsewhere for detail while keeping its own argument on the required subject and its two ways of preparation.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 95Khunrath names his own Athanor with the unburnable wick as suitable.
- 1599 p. 98 · marginThe separate tract is explicitly cited by subject and authorial possessive.
Translation in this edition
The precise distinction is between 'see my tract' here and 'I have them in hand; may God let me finish' at page 58. The modern edition's broader account of projected works should not erase that difference in the primary evidence.
Source note
The unburnable wick is named on page 95; the tract reference is on page 98. Conflating the pages makes the bibliographical evidence less precise.