Liber nouus de metallorum causis et transsubstantiatione / editus per Thomam Moresinum Aberdonanum Scotum, doctorem medicum ; in quo chimicorum quorundam inscitia & impostura philosophicis, medicis & chimicis rationibus retegitur & demonstratur ; & vera iis de rebus doctrina solide asseritur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morison, Thomas, 1558?-1603?, author.

Contributor:

Wechel, Johann, 1549-1593, printer.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Genre:

Early works.

Printers' devices (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Villaret, Maurice, 1877-1946 (bookplate) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

130, [2] pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Manufacture:

Francofurti : Apud Ioannem Wechelum., MDXCIII [1593]

Other Title:

Liber novus de metallorum causis et transubstantiatione

Liber novvs de metallorvm cavsis et tranvubstantiatione

Fingerprint:

exuæ advt s/e- ludi (3) 1593 (R)

Summary:

Late 16th-century treatise refutes the logic of alchemists, astrologers. and hermetic philosophers. The work is directed as an attack against alchemy, astrology, the transmutation of metals, and the influence of the Sun and other celestial bodies upon the Earth.

Notes:

Signatures: A-H⁸ I².

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device), factotums, head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Smith copy has a few manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Leo Cadogan Rare Books.

Smith copy has illustrated bookplate of Dr. Maurice Villaret on front pastedown.

Smith copy: small tear in fore-edge margin of front free endpaper mended.

Cited in:

Adams M1793

VD 16 M 6360

OCLC:

25074069