On the Secret Works of Art and Nature and the Nullity of Magic

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A German translation of this treatise may indeed already be found in the Turba Philosophorum Assembly of the Philosophers, which was printed by Krause in Vienna in 1758, in the second part, pages 517 to 551. However, the annotations of John Dee and the anonymous scholar, which are to be found in the fifth part of the Theatrum Chemicum Chemical Theater (Strasburg 1622), are missing there. Therefore, those enthusiasts who either do not possess the Theatrum Chemicum, or are not proficient in the Latin language, will be pleased to see that they can obtain both Bacon’s text and