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The Mirror of Alchemy Composed by the Famous Friar Roger Bacon Sometime Fellow of Martin College and Brasen-nase College in Oxenforde; Roger Bacon's Letter; and Root of the World and the Magical Letter. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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The author of this 1933 text examines a wide selection of gospel manuscripts in English libraries, ranging in date from the eighth to the fourteenth century, with a view to explaining the alterations to which St Jerome's text was subject in the Middle Ages. The investigation not only sheds light on the structure of scholastic thought, but it also reveals clearly the successive stages in which, during the period of its formation, the scholastic method of exegesis reached the English Church. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1914. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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THIS 182 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Witch, Warlock and Magician, by W. H. Davenport Adams. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766146715. ... Read more

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Stibium, as the Philosophers say, is composed from the noble mineral Sulphur, and they have praised it as the black lead of the Wise. The Arabs in their language, have called it Asinat vel Azinat, the alchemists retain the name Antimonium. It will however lead to the consideration of high Secrets, if we seek and recognize the nature in which the Sun is exalted, as the Magi found that this mineral was attributed by God to the Constellation Aries, which is the first heavenly sign in which the Sun takes its exaltation or elevation to itself. Although such things are thrown to the winds by common people, intelligent people ought to know and pay more attention to the fact that exactly at this point the infinitude of secrets may be partly contemplated with great profit and in part also explored... ... Read more

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THIS 46 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 1, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126048. ... Read more

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THIS 172 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126056. ... Read more

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THIS 60 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126056. ... Read more

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THIS 196 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126056. ... Read more

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Text Is In Latin. ... Read more

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This book contains two essays by Roger Bacon entitled The Root of the World wherein the bodies of all natural things being as well perfect as imperfect from the origin of time; and The Magical Letter of Roger Bacon concerning the marvelous power of art and of nature and concerning the nullity of magic. ... Read more

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The mystical side of a famous Franciscan friar.
Called Doctor Mirabilis (Latin for "astounding teacher"), there doesn't seem to be an area of science or philosophy this amazing man did not explore.Here is a fine example of Bacon's esoteric thinking.A great read. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more