Ripley reviv'd: or, an exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works. Containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / Written by Eirenaeus Philalethes.

  • Philalethes, Eirenaeus.
Date:
1678
  • Books
  • Online

Available online

view Ripley reviv'd: or, an exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works. Containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / Written by Eirenaeus Philalethes.

Public Domain Mark

You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. Read more about this licence.

Credit

Ripley reviv'd: or, an exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works. Containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / Written by Eirenaeus Philalethes. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by T. Ratcliff and N. Thompson, for W. Cooper, 1678.

Physical description

539 unnumbered pages : add. engr. title page ; (8vo)

References note

Wing S5286 (includes S5271 and S5274-76)
Ferguson ii.193 (q.v. for contents)
ESTC R825
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S5286

Notes

Various pagings
Each treatise has special t.p
Edited by W. Cooper
Copy 1 Note: Blank leaf at end of sig. Cc wanting. The first tract 'An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle' was printed in 'Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgical addresses', 1655 (q.v.) and seems definitely to have been written by Starkey (see Wilkinson (1973), p. 235-244)

Contents

An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's epistle to King Edward IV. 1677.--An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's preface. 1677.--An exposition upon the first six gates of Sir George Ripley's compound of alchemie. 1677.--Experiments for the preparation of the sophick mercury.--A breviary of alchemy; or, A commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation. 1678.--An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's vision.--Porta prima. De calcinatione philosophica [a chapter from Fona chymeæ philosophiæ, omitted in the Birrius ed.] (2 p. at end)

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPB/B/41046

Permanent link