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SECTION VI. — ALCHEMY. 973
De lapide in aqua MERCURIAL!. See Aureum Vellus. De lapide philosophorum. See Aureum Vellus.
De magni lapidis compositione et operatione. See Theatrum chemicum. De prima materia lapidis philosophorum. See Aureum Vellus. De quinta essentia pulcherrimus tractatus. See Aureum Vellus. Deanus, Edmundus. See Dreyfaches hermetisches Kleeblatt.
Dee, Arthur.
Fasciculus chymicus, abstrusse scientiae hermeticae ingressum, progres- sum, coronidem explicans. Paris, 1631.
* Fasciculus Chemicus : or Chymical Collections. Express- ing the ingress, progress, and egress of the secret Her- metick Science, out of the choisest \sic\ and most famous authors. Collected and digested in such an order, that it may prove to the advantage, not only of the beginners, but proficients of this high art, by none hitherto disposed in this method. VVhereunto is added the Arcanum, or grand secret of hermetick philosophy. [By Arthur Dee.] Both made English by James HasoUe, qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. London, printed by J. Fletcher for Richard Myiine at the sign of St. Paul in Little Britain, 1650. pp. [xlviii]-268, i2mo. Addi- tional engraved title-page. The preface is dated March, 1629. The " Arcanum " is by an author who conceals his name in the anagram Penes nos unda Tagi ; and is said to be " third edition amended and enlarged."
Dee, John. See Theatrum chemicum ; also Ashmole, E. : Theatrum chemicum Britan-
Dee, John.
* The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee and the Catalogue of his Library
of Manuscripts, from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge. Edited by James Orchard. Halliwell. London, printed for the Camden Society, 1842. pp. viii-102, 4to.
Democritus.
* De rebus sacris naturalibus et mysticis cum notis Synesii et Pelagii.
Norimbergae, apud Haeredes Johannis Danielis Tauberi, 1717. pp. 42, i6mo.
974 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHEMISTRY.
* Der von Mose und denen Propheten ubel urtheilende Alchymist
wird fiirgestellet in einer Schrifft-gemassen Erweisung ; Dass Moses und einige Propheten. wie auch David, Salomon, Hiob, Esra und dergleichen, keine Adepti Lapidis Philosophorum gewesen sind. Ingleichen dass die Lehre und alchymistisch Vorgeben, von Ver- wandlung der geringen Metalle in Gold, eine lautere Phantasie und schadliche Einbildung sey. Von einem Liebhaber der Wahrheit, der sich trostet dass der AUmachtige sein Gold sey, Hiob xx, v. 25, und nichts im Golde sucht. Chemnitz, bey Conrad Stoffelen, 1706. pp. [xiv]-i44, i2mo. Frontispiece and plates.
Contains a portrait of the unfortunate rogue George Honauer, and'a repre- sentation of his execution on gilded gallows, April 2, 1597, he being at the time only 24 years old.
Description of the Stone. See Ashmole, E. : Theatrum chemicum Britannicum.
Deutsches Theatrum chemicum. See Roth-Scholtz, Fr.
DiALOGUs Mercurii ALCHYMIST^ ET NATURE. See Theatrum chemicum.
DiALOGUS philosophic. Sce Aureum Vellus.
Dickinson, Edmund. See S[chroder, Fr. J. W.].
Dickinson, Edmund.
De chrysopoeia, sive de quintessentia philosophorum. Oxoniae, 1725. pp. [iv]-2 24, 8vo..
The essay bears the date August, 1683. Contains : Qusestiones propositae Theodoro Mundane (pp. 93-224).
DiGBY, Sir Kenelme.
* A late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France, touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy ; With instructions how to make the said Powder ; whereby many other Secrets of Nature are unfolded. Rendered faithfully out of French into English. By R. White, Gent. The third edition corrected and augmented with the addi- tion of an Index. London, printed for R. Lowndes at the White Lion, and T. Davies at the Bible in S. Pauls Churchyard, over against the little North-Door, 1660. pp. [x]-i52-[iv], i6mo.
* Divers Traitez de la philosophie naturelle. Scavoir, la turbe des
philosophes ou le code de verite en I'art ; la parole delaissee de Bernard Trevisan ; les deux traitez de Corneille Drebel, Flaman ; avec le tres-ancien duel des chevaliers. Nouvellement traduits en Frangois, par un Docteur en Medecine. A Paris, chez Jean d'Houry
