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PETER BOREL’S

ARMY PHYSICIAN,

Chemical Library.

OR, A CATALOGUE OF

more than three thousand Chemical Authors, and those writing on the transmutation of metals: As well as other books on mineral matters and the secrets of nature, including both Manuscripts and those hidden away in Libraries, as well as those published to light up to this year 1653, as many as were able to come to the notice of the Author. Pierre Borel (c. 1620–1671) was a French polymath and physician to King Louis XIV. This work, the Bibliotheca Chemica, was the first major bibliographic survey of alchemical and chemical literature.

We have also added to the book entries the volume, place, and year in which they were published, and other necessary details, whenever we were able to examine them.

Furthermore, those authors whose names alone we have listed are Chemists. MS stands for Manuscript.

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Aaron, praised in the Allegories of the Wise. original: "Allegoriis sapientum." This refers to a specific collection of alchemical tracts that circulated widely in the 17th century.
Under the name of Habakkuk original: "Abacuck" there exist chemical sayings.
Abagazel is a chemist, according to the account of Nasarus.