The Hermetical Triumph; or, The Victorious Philosophical Stone

[The author is] unknown. It appeared in print at Leipzig in the year 1604. Faber of Montpellier translated it into Latin, and it was from this Latin edition that the French translation was produced. This version was printed in Paris by d'Houry and placed at the end of a book containing the French Turba The Turba Philosophorum, or Assembly of the Philosophers, is one of the oldest and most famous Latin alchemical texts., The Word Left Behind original Latin: verbum dimissum, and the works of Drebellius Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633), a Dutch engineer and alchemist., which together make up one volume.

However, whether Faber did not well understand the German language or instead intentionally falsified the original, there are corrupted passages in these two translations. These are so clearly false that they have caused many to despise original: "contemned" this little work, even though it otherwise seems to be highly esteemed.

Because truth and falsehood cannot exist together in the same subject, and because it was easy to judge that these translations were not done faithfully, a philosopher of extraordinary knowledge and merit did,