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Bibliotheca Chimica. Seu Catalogus Librorum Philosophicorum Hermeticorum : In Quo Quatuor Millia circiter, Authorum Chimicorum, vel de transmutatione Metallorum, re Minerali, & Arcanis, tam manuscriptorum, quam in lucem editorum, cum eorum editionibus, usque ad annum 1653. continentur ; Cum eiusdem Bibliothecae Appendice, & Corollario
Pierre Borel’s Chemical Library is a monumental map of the occult and chemical sciences. It tracks four thousand authors to prove that alchemy is a legitimate pursuit of truth. Readers will uncover how historical, religious, and scientific texts were once read as manuals for the transmutation of nature.