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PETRI BORELLI

PHYSICIAN OF THE CAMP,

Chemical Library.

OR, A CATALOG OF MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND CHEMICAL AUTHORS, AND ON THE TRANSMUTATION OF METALS: AS ALSO OTHER BOOKS ON MINERAL MATTERS, AND THE SECRETS OF NATURE, AS WELL AS MANUSCRIPTS AND THOSE RECONDIED IN LIBRARIES, AS THOSE PUBLISHED TO THE LIGHT UP TO THIS YEAR 1653, AS MANY AS COULD COME TO THE AUTHOR’S NOTICE.

We have also appended to the books the volume, place, and year in which they were published, and other necessary things, when it happened that we could see them.

The authors whose name alone we have listed are chemists. M.S. means Manuscript.

Aaron, praised in the Allegories of the wise.
Under the name of Abacuck, chemical sayings exist.
Abagazel, according to the report of Nasari, is a chemist.
Abel, praised as a chemist in the Book of the Glory of the World.