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At the time of his death, Newton had 169 books on the topic of alchemy in his personal library, and was believed to have considerably more books on this topic during his Cambridge years, though he may have sold them before moving to London in 1696. For its time, his was considered one of the finest alchemical libraries in the world.
Mutus Liber cover. The Mutus Liber, or Mute Book (from Latin: Silent Book), is a Hermetic philosophical work published in La Rochelle in 1677. It ranks amongst the major books on alchemy in Early Modern literature, just as much as does Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier.
The only matching transaction in Rudolf's records is the 1599 purchase of "a couple of remarkable/rare books" from Carl Widemann for the sum of 600 florins. [65] Widemann was a prolific collector of esoteric and alchemical manuscripts, so his ownership of the manuscript is plausible, but unproven. [65]
Title page of a 1678 edition at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Frontispiece of the Musaeum Hermeticum. Musaeum Hermeticum ("Hermetic library") is a compendium of alchemical texts first published in German, in Frankfurt, 1625 by Lucas Jennis. [1] Additional material was added for the 1678 Latin edition, which in turn was reprinted ...
Reprints of these books are often available, for example from Great Books of the Western World, Dover Publications or Google Books. Incunabula are extremely rare and valuable, but as the "scientific revolution" is only taken to have started around the 1540s, such works of Renaissance literature (including alchemy, Renaissance magic, etc.) are ...
The PRS still maintains a research library of over 50,000 volumes, [13] and also sells and publishes metaphysical and spiritual books, mostly those authored by Hall. [14] After his death, some of Manly Hall's rare alchemy books were sold to keep the PRS in operation.
The entire Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica collection consists of around 28,000 books, including around 7,500 books printed before 1800, 70 incunables, 700 post-1550 manuscripts, and 25 manuscripts written before 1550. The remaining books are post 1800. Many items in the library are one of a kind. [3]
Overall, this book discusses the philosophical and religious aspects of alchemy, as according to Jung, alchemy was introduced more as a religion than a science. Jung's concluding statement is that when alchemy became virtually shunned out of existence, the investigation of the human psyche went undiscovered for several hundred years.
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