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The golden calf which the world adores and desires : in which is handled the most rare and incomparable wonder of nature in transmuting metals, viz, how the intire substance of lead was in one moment transmuted into gold-obrizon with an exceeding small particle of the true philosophick stone / at the Hague, in the year 1666, written in Latin by John Frederick Helvetius ... and faithfully Englished.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection 540.1 H368E 1670
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, 1625-1709.
- Standardized Title:
- Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
- Alchemy.
- Physical Description:
- 129 pages ; 15 cm. (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for John Starkey ..., 1670.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat.
- Translated by William Cooper. Cf. J. Ferguson. Bibliotheca chemica.
- Cited in:
- Wing H1410
- Arber's Term cat. I 56
- ESTC R9279
- OCLC:
- 30767867
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