Rosary of the Philosophers

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The alchemy of the stone of the philosophers

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The true means of preparing: containing

exactly the progress of the said Science:

With figures that show the perfec-

tion of the thing.

The Artists of this Art Are

Named, as reported by Vincent in the

Natural Mirror

Adam, Noah, Idris often identified with Hermes Trismegistus, Squilia, Chora, Moses, and his sister Mary, Cato, Virgil, Aristotle, Alexander, Geber, Yahya, Rhazes, Albumasar, Morienus, John the Evangelist, Garcias, and Gilbert Cardinals, William the Bishop named Huck. Giles master of the hospital, who has written the book of the 12 stones, Andronicus also a Bishop, and Dominic the apostolic, and Jacob Aranicus the Jew, who have taught me many things in this Art. Also Peter and Durandus the monks, Avicenna, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, and Raymond Lull. These have flourished in our latter times.