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
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Title: 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
Other titles: Exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works
Classmark: Early Science 2 1678/PHI
Creator(s): Philalethes, Eirenaeus Cosmopolita (pseud.)
Additional creator(s): Cooper, William (fl. 1668-1688) (Other); Starkey, George (1627-1665) (Other); Vaughan, Thomas (1622-1666) (Other)
Related people: Ripley, George, d. 1490?; Cooper, William; Starkey, George; Vaughan, Thomas
Publisher: Printed by T. Ratcliff and N. Thompson, for W. Cooper
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1678
Language: English
Size and medium: [17], 44, [4], 389, [5], 6, [4], 7-10, [8], 28, [6], 25, [3] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/241957
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014121199705181
Description
Added t.-p., engraved.
Each treatise has special t.-p.
Edited by W. Cooper.
Wing. S5286. Wing attributes the work to George Starkey.
"Wrongly attributed to George Starkey and to Thomas Vaughan."--Halkett.
"Porta prima de calcinatione philosophica" [a chapter from Fons chymicæ philosophiæ, omitted in Birrius' ed.] ([2] p. at end.).
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 alchymie. 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. 1678.
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