Attempt at an Overview of Chemical Literature and its Branches

chem. page 30, §. 44. "I think, as far as can be gathered from everything," he says, "that Basilius was a true artist, but that he was castrated corrupted/edited by the editors, and that what he inculcates regarding the bath of the fighters and regarding vitriol is to be understood in a sense far other than what they promise at first glance."

His writings have been published as follows.

Chemical Writings, Hamburg 1677, with woodcuts, 8vo. The same, 1700, 8vo, with woodcuts, 4th edition with a preface on the life of Basilius by D. Benj. Nic. Petraeus, in 3 parts, Hamburg 1717, 8vo.

Treatise on the Great Star of the Wise, published by Joh. Thölden, 1612. The first edition he published in Frankenhausen with figures in 1602. Besides this one, there is an older one from 1599 by Barth. Hornigk in Eisleben. See Aureum Vellus Golden Fleece, 3rd tractate, 1600, 8vo, page 610, 640; in Ioach. Tanckii Prompt. alchem. Alchemical Repository, 2nd book, page 610 to 640, 8vo.

Twelve Keys, see Ioach. Tanckii Prompt. Alchym. 2nd book, 8vo, page 642—700. Aureum Vellus, 3rd tractate, page 641—702. Hamburg 1677, 1700, 1717, 8vo.

De Microcosmo On the Microcosm. Hamburg 1677, 1700, 1717, 8vo.

De Macrocosmo On the Macrocosm. Hamburg 1677, 1700, 1717, 8vo.

De Occulta Philosophia On Occult Philosophy, edited by Ioh. Thoelden, 8vo. Leipzig 1611. Hamburg 1677, 1700, 1717.

On Natural and Supernatural Things, edited by Joh. Thölden, Leipzig 1611, 8vo. The same, 1624. Hamburg 1677, 1700, 1717, 8vo.

Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, by Joh. Thölden, Leipzig 1694; ibid. 1611; ibid. 1624, 8vo. Nuremberg 1676.