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Novum Lumen Medicum de Mysterio Sulphuris Philosophorum 🜎

by: Joachim Polemann

Publication date: 1660

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: alchemy, chemistry, iatrochemistry, medicine, philosophy

Collection: opensource_image

Language: German

A text about alchemy. “In his preface Poleman mentions Paracelsus and Basilius Valentinus in addition to Helmont. On pp. 113, 116, 160, 204 he discusses Boehme and recommends him to the seeker after Truth.”—according to Margaret Lewis Bailey, 1914

Full title in German: “Novum lumen medicum. In welchem die vortreffliche und höchstnöthige lehre des hochbegabten Philosophi Helmontii, Von dem hohen Geheimnis des Sulphuris Philosophorum. Aus getreuen wohlmeynendem Gemüthe gegen die Unwissenden und Irrenden / wie auch aus mitleidendem Hertzen gegen die Krancken / gründlichen erkläret wird / von Joachimo Polemann”

An English translation by “F. H. a German” was published in 1662 in London and full text is available from the Oxford Text Archive