William Johnson - Lexicon chymicum: Cùm obscuriorum verborum

Full title:Lexicon chymicum: Cùm obscuriorum verborum, et rerum hermeticarum, tùm phrasium Paracelsicorum, in scriptis ejus: et aliorum chymicorum, passim occurrentium, planam explicationem continens. This contents of this lovely, and scarce 12mo: [4] page dedication, which is close cropped. Then [6] page preface to the reader. The main text is the chemical lexicon, which runs to 259 pages, complete.There then follows a brief life of Paracelsus (alas, with title page removed). This 'Vita Paracelsi' consists of [4] page advice to reader and then [15] pages on Paracelsus: a very rare work.Then there follows a 72 page alphabetical listing 'Lexicon Chymicum'. This is complete.Bound in is a fascinating 'Characteres vocabulorum Chymicorum' with 11 pages of chemical/alchemical symbols. This too is complete.William Johnson was a pioneer in the introduction of Helmontian medicine and alchemy into England (see Antonio Clericuzio, From van Helmont to Boyle. A Study of the Transmission of Helmontian Chemical and Medical Theories in Seventeenth-Century England). Johnson was in charge of the chemical laboratory at the College of Physicians. This is an exceptionally important and scarce collection of material on alchemy, Paracelsianism, Van Helmont, and astrological divination. Books---

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