The Chemical Writings
Chymische Schriften
First Complete Translation
Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.
Basilius Valentinus's 'Chymische Schriften' (Chemical Writings) is a collection of various alchemical treatises. While individual treatises from this collection, such as 'The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony', have been translated into English multiple times since the 17th century, there is no evidence of a single, complete, and unified English translation of the entire 1677 'Chymische Schriften' collection. Therefore, while the individual components are well-known in English, the collection as a whole remains untranslated.
The triumphal chariot of antimony, trans. Bouleur, Joseph (1992) [partial]
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About This Book
Step into the smoky laboratory of the legendary Basilius Valentinus, where the boundaries between chemistry, medicine, and the divine dissolve. This text offers a radical blueprint for transmuting the base metals of the earth—and the impurities of the human body—into the 'Potable Gold' of the sages.
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