Theatrum chemicum, praecipuos selectorum auctorum tractatus de chemiae et lapidis philosophici antiquitate, veritate, iure, praestantia, & operationibus, continens: in gratiam verae chemiae, et medicinae chemicae studiosorum ... congestum, et in sex partes seu volumina digestum; singulis voluminibus, suo auctorum et librorum catalogo primis pagellis: rerum vero & verborum indice postremis annexo. Volumen primum [- sextum]

nus, Alphidius, Maria, Calid the Babylonian on the secret of secrets, Adros, Chora, Carab. Seneca to Adros, King of Arabia, and Sedacerius.

In Greek, however, are desired: Olympiodorus of Alexandria, Osthanes, Pelagius the African, Zosimus, Isaac the Monk, Blemidas, Theophilus, Synesius, Ptolemy, Euclid, Apuleius, Heliodorus to Theodosius, Dardanus, Demetrius, Democritus, Aristotle On Minerals book III, Theophrastus, Albugazal, teacher of Plato in this art, Plato the Younger, on whose Aphorisms or commentaries Hameth, or Hamech, wrote, and Seneca.

In Latin, however: Joannitius, Rosinus, Ephistus, Florus, Almazatus to the Archbishop of Saragossa, Bernardus Count of Treves, who wrote the Turba Philosophorum collected by himself, and another from that which is circulated everywhere, and which he often cites. Ray. Lulli. John of Rupescissa. Pontius, Hortulanus, Clemens On the Secrets of Nature. Gilbert the Cardinal. Blessed Ægidius the Hermit, to whom is ascribed the Royal Canticle written in verse in French in honor of the Conception of the Blessed Mary. The Master of the Hospital, Andronicus the Bishop, Peter and Durand the monks, Valerandus de Bosco, Theodore, Peter of Villa Nova, brother of Arnaldus, Summa Textualis, On the Sacred Wood, Blessed Thomas On the Essences of Essences and his Breviloquium, Stephen, whose is the book On the Great and Sacred Science, Jo. Dastinus the Englishman, Holcot, Scotus, G. of Paris, Bernardus de Gravia, Dumbeleius, Aloisius Marlianus, Regor, Richard the Englishman On Chemistry, to which he gave the title Correctorium, and Janus Latinius, seen by some, and very many others by certain ones who do not wish to reveal them to the students of this art, greedily and secretly, as once the Sibylline books, kept. There are also very many other books by uncertain authors. Many also artfully written in French. Furthermore, many have exercised this Chemical art, and happily arrived at the end of it, and the composition of the powder, who are enumerated by Avicenna in the book On the Soul, first diction, to the end of the seventh chapter; and by Vincent in the Natural Mirror.

The ancients were accustomed to write divine, high, and sublime things under the veil of many enigmas and poetic fables.

Chemical inventions of the poets.

For very many of the ancients treated such mysteries of this most precious art, and the deeper things of nature, under poetic fables, and purposely hid them. For the fables: of the dragon which Cadmus killed, who later, at the prompting of Pallas, sowed the teeth of the killed [dragon], whence those earth-born brothers arose. Of the sacrifice of Hecate among the Orphic writings. Of Medea, who is feigned to have restored Jason's son Aeson to youth. Of Saturn, who cut off the genitals of his father Caelus, and