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Bibliography and Editorial Sources

Sources of this anthology

The references below restore the compiler’s bibliography and supplementary reading list. Dates identify the editions cited there, not necessarily first publication. A citation to a whole book does not mean that the anthology contains that whole work. The compiler’s paraphrases, adaptations and excerpt omissions remain identified in the preceding chapters.

Albertus Magnus. Book of Minerals. Translated by Dorothy Wyckoff. Oxford University Press, 1967.

Anonymous. Meditations on the Tarot. Amity House, 1985, pp. 21–26.

Brann, N. L. “George Ripley and the Abbot Trithemius.” Ambix 26, no. 3 (1979), pp. 212–220.

Blavatsky, H. P. Isis Unveiled. Theosophical University Press, 1972 edition, pp. 507–514.

Burckhardt, Titus. Alchemy. Stuart and Watkins, London, 1967, pp. 196–201.

Davis, Tenney L. “The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus: Three Latin Versions Which Were Current among Later Alchemists.” Journal of Chemical Education 3, no. 8 (1926), pp. 863–875.

de Jong, H. M. E. Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems. Brill, Leiden, 1969.

Dobbs, B. J. T. “Newton’s Commentary on the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus.” In Hermeticism and the Renaissance, edited by Ingrid Merkel and Allen G. Debus. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 1988.

Fulcanelli. Les Demeures Philosophales. Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris, 1964.

Hall, Manly P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, 1977 edition, pp. CLVII–CLVIII.

Holmyard, E. J. “The Emerald Table.” Nature 112 (6 October 1923), pp. 525–526. The compiler’s bibliography incorrectly gives 1929, and its translation citation reverses 526 to 562.

Holmyard, E. J. Alchemy. Pelican, Harmondsworth, 1957, pp. 95–98.

Linden, Stanton J., editor. The Mirror of Alchimy Composed by the Thrice-Famous and Learned Fryer Roger Bacon (1597). Garland, New York, 1992.

Manzalaoui, M. A., editor. Secretum Secretorum: Nine English Versions. Early English Text Society, Oxford University Press, 1977. Appendix selections: pp. 65–66 and 174–175.

Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China, volume 5, part 4: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts. Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Read, John. Prelude to Chemistry. G. Bell, London, 1939 edition, pp. 15 and 51–55.

Redgrove, H. Stanley. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern. William Rider, London, 1922 edition, pp. 40–42.

Sadoul, Jacques. Alchemists and Gold. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1972, pp. 25–26.

Schumaker, Wayne. The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1972, pp. 179–180.

Shah, Idries. The Sufis. Octagon, London, 1977 edition, 198. The translation heading cites the 1964 edition.

Sherwood Taylor, F. The Alchemists. Paladin, London, 1976 edition, pp. 77–78.

Stapleton, H. E., G. L. Lewis and F. Sherwood Taylor. “The Sayings of Hermes Quoted in the Ma Al-Waraqi of Ibn Umail.” Ambix 3 (1949), pp. 69–90.

Steele, Robert, and Dorothea Waley Singer. “The Emerald Table.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 21 (1928), pp. 485–501.

Supplementary reading listed by the compiler

McLean, Adam, and Peter Tahil. The Amphitheatre Engravings of Heinrich Khunrath, pp. 28 and 73–76.

“Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians,” in Paul M. Allen’s A Christian Rosenkreutz Anthology, third edition, Steinerbooks, pp. 228–230.

AMORC Supplementary Monograph: Hermetic Teachings, RAD-13, lecture 2, “Inner Hermetic Teachings.”

Sources consulted for this reading edition

Jon Marshall’s compilation, hosted by The Alchemy Website: https://www.alchemywebsite.com/emerald.html

Isaac Newton, “Hermes,” Keynes MS 28, King’s College, Cambridge; diplomatic transcription in The Chymistry of Isaac Newton, Indiana University: https://newton.dlib.indiana.edu/text/ALCH00017/diplomatic

Holmyard’s original Nature article: https://doi.org/10.1038/112525a0

Middle English Dictionary, “which,” quoting the second appendix version at Manzalaoui 174/35: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED52536

Yale Library, The Medieval Manuscripts of Toshiyuki Takamiya, entry for Takamiya MS 38: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/medieval-manuscripts-toshiyuki-takamiya-beinecke-library

Jeremiah Hackett, “Roger Bacon,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/roger-bacon/

Robert W. Sharples, Peripatetic Philosophy 200 BC to AD 200, index of sources, entry for Nemesius (c. AD 400), Cambridge University Press: https://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/11852/index/9780521711852_index.pdf

Job of Edessa, Book of Treasures, edited and translated by Alphonse Mingana; publisher description identifying the author: https://www.gorgiaspress.com/job-of-edessas-book-of-treasures