The Volume and Work Beyond Wonder

Heirs.” Then we find it in the same year as a reprint of the 1562 edition in the Surgical Works original: Opus Chirurgicum [Folio] of Paracelsus [“printed at Frankfurt am Main, by Martin Lechler, published by Sigmund Feyrabend and Simon Hüter”], and in 1566 in the title edition A "title edition" refers to a publication where the existing pages of a previous printing are used, but a new title page is attached, often to refresh the work's marketability. [Folio] of the latter work. In the year 1570, the Work original: Opus appeared in the Latin language [“Basel, by Petrus Perna,” Octavo An "octavo" (8º) is a book size where sheets are folded three times to create eight leaves.], and in 1575 in the first attempt at a Latin “Complete Edition” [Volume II of the Works Rendered into Latin. Basel. From the workshop of Petrus Perna. 8º]. It appeared further in the first part of our Huser Quarto edition [1589—1591] of the Paracelsian works, in the first part of the reprint of the first four volumes of this edition, in the first part of the Frankfurt reprint [1603], in the first part [1603] of the Strasbourg Folio edition [1603 and 1605], in the first volume [1603] of the Latin “Complete Edition” [1603 and 1605], in the first part [1616] of the new printing of the Folio edition [1616—1618], and in the first volume of the Latin Complete Edition [1658]. The section Third Book of the Paramirum original: Liber Tertius Paramiri, which follows the two books of the Work original: Opus, appeared as a separate printing with On Invisible Diseases original: De morbis invisibilibus in the year 1565 [“Printed at Cologne, by the Heirs of Arnold Birckmann,” 4º], in 1566 in the title edition of this book, and in 1574 in “Doctor Aureolus Paracelsus’s LABYRINTH and Maze of Supposed Physicians” [including the “Seven Defenses, or Speeches of Protection”].¹) Then in the Latin “Complete Edition” from the year 1575 and in all the further “Complete Editions” mentioned above. The Fourth Book of the Paramirum regarding the Womb original: Paramiri Liber Quartus de Matrice—that is, the fourth part of the Opus Paramirum—appeared independently in 1566 with the treatise “The Book of METEORS original: METEORORVM of the Noble ... Paracelsus ... Doctor of both Medicines” [4º; “Printed at Cologne, by Arnold Birckmann’s Heirs”], and in 1569 in Latin with On Meteors original: De Meteoricis...

¹) 8º; “Printed at Basel, by Samuel Apiarius, at the expense and publication of Mr. Petrus Perna.”