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Recepte veritable, par laquelle tous les hommes de la France pourront apprendre à multiplier et augmenter leurs thresors
Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.
Extensive searches of library catalogs, academic databases, and digital archives have yielded no evidence of a complete English translation of Bernard Palissy's 'Recepte véritable' (1563). While scholarly works and biographies (such as Henry Morley's 1855 'Palissy the Potter') contain translated excerpts or illustrative selections from Palissy's writings, no full, stand-alone English edition of this specific work has been published. Therefore, this is the first complete translation.
Palissy the Potter. The life of Bernard Palissy ... with an outline of his philosophical doctrines, and a translation of illustrative selections from his works, trans. Henry Morley (1855) [excerpts] source
Verified Mar 31, 2026 via local catalogs, open library, google books, internet archive, openalex · methodology
Bernard Palissy writes like a man possessed by the secrets of the earth. He bridges the gap between the potter's kiln and the laws of nature, offering a raw, firsthand account of how the world actually works.