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In Hoc Volumine De Alchemia
Geber; Roger Bacon; Hermes Trismegistus
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work 'In Hoc Volumine De Alchemia' (1541) is a famous early modern collection of alchemical texts by various authors (Geber, Roger Bacon, etc.). While individual works by these authors have been translated into English over the centuries, this specific 1541 Latin compilation has not been translated as a whole volume. My searches of major library catalogs and scholarly databases yielded no record of a complete or partial English translation of this specific collection.
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This collection serves as a primary source for the medieval laboratory. Readers will discover the cold, hard reality of metallic transformation through the eyes of Geber, Bacon, and Hermes.