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Fortuita
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across major scholarly catalogs (including UNESCO Index Translationum, Open Library, Internet Archive, and OpenAlex) yielded no evidence of an English translation of Jacobus Tollius's 'Fortuita' (1687). The work is a specialized Neo-Latin alchemical text, and no complete or partial English translation has been identified in academic or bibliographical databases.
Verified Mar 30, 2026 via local catalogs, open library, google books, internet archive, openalex · methodology
What if the legends of the gods were actually laboratory manuals for the ultimate secret of the universe? Jacobus Tollius peels back the veil of classical mythology to reveal a hidden world of alchemical formulas, arguing that the works of the ancients are a coded record of the Philosopher's Stone.
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