Volume 3

Physical and chemical essays / translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman ... by Edmund Cullen ... To which are added notes and illustrations by the translator.

  • Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784.
Date:
1784-1791
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Credit: Physical and chemical essays / translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman ... by Edmund Cullen ... To which are added notes and illustrations by the translator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FJfay of Diofcorus, the high pried of Serai' pis in Alexandria, and the Letter of Synefius to the fame Diofcorus; being a comment on the Tin dure of gold and filver of Democritus,. Zofimus mentions this, who, therefore mud have lived after thefe philofopbers; hut it is impof- fible, in a general fketch only, to fix the age of every one with perfed accuracy. Zofimus of Panopolis, fo highly efteemed by the alchernifts, was alfo referred to the fifth cen¬ tury. His work, Of the Compojition of Waters; of the facred and divine Art; of Virtue, and In¬ terpretation ; of Injlruments and Chimnies; of the AJbefios; and his myfiic treatife and writing to Theofebia, are all preferred in different libra¬ ries: None of them however have yet been printed. Olympiodorus, who lived a fiiort time before the emperor Theodofius, has commented upon the pradical treatife of Zofimus, of the manner of working, and upon thofe which are attribut¬ ed to Hermes, and others refpeding the making of gold. Theophradus the philofopher, on the facred and divine Art; Hierotheus an the Pbilofo*, pher'sjlone, on the facred Art, and the Method of making Gold; Archelaus on the chemical Art; Anepigraphus on Chryfopoiea, and the way to whiten divine Water ; Pelagius on the divine and facred Art; Eugenius on the facred Art, and the chemical