Ortus medicinae. Id est initia physicae inaudita [Alchemy]
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- Bruxelles, Belgium: Culture et Civilisation, 1966
Bruxelles, Belgium: Culture et Civilisation, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Hardcover. Jan Baptist van Helmont was a chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry." Van Helmont is notable in the history of chemistry for being the first to identify “airs” that are different from the air we breathe. He pointed out the peculiar properties of the "air" given off during wine-making, and combustion, calling it "gas sylvestre", and he recognized another "air" that accumulates in swamps and the intestines, which he called "gas pingue". These two gases will later be identified as carbon dioxide and methane. The very word "gas" was a Helmontian invention, derived from the Greek word "chaos".
From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical ‘Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy.
Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form – alchemical results or talismans. Light shelfwear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Large 8vo. xxxviii, 799pp. Illus. (b/w. Faux leather boards. Former owner library stamp. In Latin.
From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical ‘Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy.
Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form – alchemical results or talismans. Light shelfwear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Large 8vo. xxxviii, 799pp. Illus. (b/w. Faux leather boards. Former owner library stamp. In Latin.