Alchemy, ancient and modern . o on saying thatI know everything; for there are many that expectme to do great things for them. . There are manycountries, and many greedy persons who will suffeirthemselves to be gulled by my promises of mountainsof gold. Thus day will follow day, and in the mean-time the King or the donkey will die, or I myself. *3The second part treats of the Elements and Principles(see §§ 17 and 19). § 55. Michael Maier (see plate 10) was born at Rendsberg (in Holstein) about 1568. He studied medicine assiduously, becoming a most Michael successful physician, and he was en-(1
Alchemy, ancient and modern . o on saying thatI know everything; for there are many that expectme to do great things for them. . There are manycountries, and many greedy persons who will suffeirthemselves to be gulled by my promises of mountainsof gold. Thus day will follow day, and in the mean-time the King or the donkey will die, or I myself. *3The second part treats of the Elements and Principles(see §§ 17 and 19). § 55. Michael Maier (see plate 10) was born at Rendsberg (in Holstein) about 1568. He studied medicine assiduously, becoming a most Michael successful physician, and he was en-(1568-1622). nobled by Rudolf II. Later on, how-ever, he took up the subject of Alchemy,and is said to have ruined his health and wasted hisfortune in the pursuit of the alchemistic ignis fatuus—the Stone of the Philosophers—travelling aboutGermany and elsewhere in order to have conversewith those who were regarded as adepts in the 13 The New Chemical Light% Part L (see The Hermetic Museum^vol. ii. p. 125). PLATE rRES SCHOLA,TRES COESAR TITVLOS DE: MIHI RESTANT,POSSE BENE IN CHRISTO MORI Michael maiervs comes imperialis con. SISTORII ET N0NL. EXEMPTVS F0R0L1MMEDICVS
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