Attempt at an Overview of Chemical Literature and its Branches

page 129, which places him in the year 1413. He says: "Furthermore, he is counted among those whom they name in the hope of having created gold. Thus, a stranger's madness deceives after centuries, less blameworthy for the idea, because those who love to be deceived are stripped of their wealth." So too does the Abbot Adam in this monastery in a program he wrote in 1681, who believes that he lived there in 1400. P. Friderici, in his chronicle of the year 1405, however, claims not to have found him in the registry of deceased monks, though he believes he lived there at the time. Others believe he lived in the Walkenried monastery. Helmont, L. Tria principia §. 6. page 324, calls him the inventor of chemical principles and says that he lived about a century before Theophrastus Paracelsus. Ioach. Crato mentions his writings in the preface to Scaliger's book On Subtlety. The Strasbourg edition is said to have been printed from a manuscript found in the monastery under the high altar, located in a column, and discovered when a thunderstorm destroyed the column; this has long been known as a fable. The emblematic figures formerly located on the church windows are also attributed to him. So much is certain, that Queen Christina of Sweden had all his writings brought to Sweden in manuscript during the Thirty Years' War, and that a remaining manuscript was presented by a certain Elector of Mainz to the then-Elector of Cologne. Before we list his writings, we wish to add the judgment of Ol. Borrichius in Conspectu scriptorum chem.