The alchemical writings of Edward Kelly / Tr. from the Hamburg edition of 1676, and ed. with a biographical preface.

  • Kelly, Edward, 1555-1595.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The alchemical writings of Edward Kelly / Tr. from the Hamburg edition of 1676, and ed. with a biographical preface. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    able to affirm that the importance of this alchemist’s history concentrates entirely in his possession of the trans- muting powders, and in the manner by which he is said to have acquired them. The other episodes of his life may be treated with comparative brevity. Edward Kelly appears to have been born at Worcester, the event occurring, according to Anthony a Wood,^ about four o’clock in the afternoon on the first day of August, 1555. This was in the third year of Queen Mary’s reign. He was educated in his native city until the age of seventeen, when he is supposed to have repaired to Oxford. The regis- ters of that Universitv contain no record «/ of any Edward Kelly having entered at the period in question, and it is assumed that his real name was Talbot. Three persons bearing this designation were entered at Gloucester Hall about this time. Possibly the University records have not been adequately searched, and AthencB Oxoniensis, ed. 1813, pp. 639-643.