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The Waterstone of the Wise
This important and influential text parallels the Philosophers' Stone with Christ, the Corner Stone. It had a long publishing history.Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher. Wasserstein der Weysen, das ist, ein chymisch Tractätlein, darin der Weg gezeiget, die Materia genennet, und der Process beschrieben wird, zu dem hohen geheymnuss der Universal Tinctur zukommen, vor diesem niemalen gesehen. Darbey auch zwey sehr nutzliche andere Büchlein der Gleichformigkeit und Concordantz wegen angehenckt, nemlich, 1. Iohan von Mesung. 2. Via veritatis der einigen Warheit..., Frankfurt, 1619, 1661, 1703, 1704, 1709, 1710, 1743, 1760.
A Latin translation was included in the Musaeum Hermeticum, Frankfurt, 1625, 1678 and 1749. It was also included in Manget's Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, Geneva, 1702.
Later in the 18th century it still made an appearance in the Hermetisches A.B.C. Berlin, 1778, and the Magazin für die höhere Naturwissenschaft und Chemie. Tubingen, 1784.
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