page_title: Theatrum Chemicum
section_title: Volume VI
hierarchical_section_title: Theatrum Chemicum / Contents / Volume VI
caption_attribution_description: English: Page 1 of "Theatrum Chemicum", Volume VI, printed 1659-61 in Strasburg, France by Lazarus Zetzner (Zetznerni, Zetznerus)
context_page_description: Theatrum Chemicum is a compendium of early alchemical writings published in six volumes over the course of six decades. The first three volumes were published in 1602, while the final sixth volume was published in its entirety in 1661. Theatrum Chemicum remains the most comprehensive collective work on the subject of alchemy ever published in the Western world.
  The full title of the work is Theatrum Chemicum, præcipuos selectorum auctorum tractatus de Chemiæ et Lapidis Philosophici Antiquitate, veritate, jure præstantia, et operationibus continens in gratiam veræ Chemiæ et Medicinæ Chemicæ Studiosorum congestum et in quatuor partes seu volumina digestum, though later volumes express slightly modified titles. For the sake of brevity, the work is most often referred to simply as Theatrum Chemicum.
  All volumes of the work, with exception of the last two volumes, were published by Lazarus Zetzner in Oberursel and Strasbourg, France. The final two volumes were published posthumously by Zetzner's heirs, who continued to use his name for publication purposes.
context_section_description: The final volume of Theatrum Chemicum was published in 1659-1661 in Strasbourg.  Volume VI was published by Eberhardi Zetzner, though compiled by Johannes Jacobus Heilman.  This volume contains tracts originally issued in German or French, but were translated by Heilman into Latin.  These additional tracts would increase the total tracts to over 200.
  Johannes Jacobus Heilman, Dedicatio (ad Friderico, comiti palatino ad Rhenum) (Dedication)
  Johannes Jacobus Heilman, Praefatio Dedicatio (secunda ad J.F.H.S. Sendivogii filio) 
  Johannes Jacobus Heilman, Praefatio ad lectorem (Introduction)
  Elenchus authorum et XII. tractatuum voluminis sexti (Table of Contents)
  Blasius Vigenerius, Tractatus de igne et sale
  Tractatus de sale et igne. Pars secunda
  Johannes Collesson, Idea perfecta philosophiae hermeticae
  Dedicatio (ad Gastoni Burbonio, Ludovici XIII regis fratri unico)
  Constans et unanimis vere philosophantium de physici lapidis materia atque operationibus sententia
  Idea perfecta philosophiae hermeticae, seu abbreviatio theoriae et praxeos lapidis philosophici observationibus, ad melius intelligendum principia et fundamenta naturae et philosophiae, aucta
  Observationes necessariae ad bene intelligendum principia et fundamenta naturae et philosophiae hermeticae (De principiis philosophiae hermeticae)
  Anonymus Philosophus, Fidelissima et jucunda instructio patris ad filium ex manuscripto Gallico desumpta
  Praefatio
  Hermes in superiori sphaera est in medio fontisvena, quae est philosophorum regula prima. Summa decem capitum sequentium
  Instructio de arbore solari
  Christophorus Parisiensis, Elucidarius artis transmutatoriae metallorum summa major
  Praefatio authoris
  Elenchus rerum quae in hoc opusculo continentur
  Elucidarii liber primus (de arte transmutatoria) in VII. capita divisus
  Appendix theorica pro meliore praecedentium declaratione
  Elucidarii liber secundus seu practica scientiae arboris philosophalis
  Elucidarii liber III. seu tertia pars elucidarii. De ordine medicinarum cum reprobatione sophisticationum Geberi
  Recapitulatio exacta trium elucidarii partium seu librorum
  Clavis (elucidarii) seu explicatio alphabeti, quo operationes artificis diversae abbreviationis causa denotantur
  Appendix practica (ad elucidarium) ante hac nunquam visa
  Tractatulus accuratissimus de compositione sulphuris et menstrui vegatibilis seu auro potabili secundum
  Johannes Grasseus alias Chortalasseus, Arca arcani artificiosissimi de summis naturae mysteriis. Constructa ex rustico majore et minore, et physica naturalis rotunda visionem cabalisticum chemicam descripta, quibus accessit appendix anonymi cuiusdam philosophi de via ad aurum potabile perveniendi
  De lapide philosophorum in genere
  De consensu philosophorum
  Pars secunda: Lilium inter spinas (1598)
  De praxis authoris
  Anonymus, Physica naturalis rotunda visionis chemicae cabalisticae (Cabala chemica)
  Admonitio. Instructio et probatio contra omnes eos, qui aurum potabile extra processum et tincturam lapidis philosophici universalis brevi temporis spatio praeparare sibi et aliis falso persuadent et sibi proponunt
  Praefatio ad lectorem
  Appendix de via ad aurum potabile philosophico
  Responsiones duae F. R. C. ad quosdam suos clientes
  Prima responsio: Epistola F. R. C. de lapide philosophorum acquisitione
  Altera responsio
  Andreas Orthelius, Commentator in Novum lumen chymicum Michaelis Sendivogii Poloni, XII. figuris in Germania repertis illustratum (1624)
  Praefatio Orthelii
  Commentator in Novum lumen chymicum Sendivogii
  Epilogus et recapitulatio in Novum lumen chymicum Sendivogii
  Andreas de Blauwen, Epistola Andreae de Blavven scripta ad Petrum Andream Matthiolum in qua agitur de multiplici auri potabilis parandi ratione
  Discursus Orthelii de praecedente Epistola Andreae de Blawen
  Epistola anonymi de principiis artis Hermeticae
  Expositio et practica lapidis adrop, collecta ex Plinii philosophi libro qui intitulatur: Aromaticum philosophorum thesaurus et secretum secretorum
  Excerpta ex interlocutione Mariae Prophetissae sororis Moysis et Aaronis, habita cum aliquo philosopho dicto Aros de excellentiss
caption: Page One of Theatrum Chemicum Volume VI.  Published 1659-61, Strasbourg by Lazarus Zetzner.
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