VMs: RE: Georg BARCHIUS

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As you may recall, thanks to Google and a typo I stumbled on a
bibliography where "Georg Barchius" is listed as the author of 3-4
books on alchemy. 

Unfortunately, as Rafal pointed out, the reference must be an error,
since the true author of those books is a certain Johann Conrad
Barchusen. Perhaps the "Barchius" name had been taken from the
ex-libris, or a chunk of the file had been deleted, joining two
entries.

The bibliography is maintanied by Grupo Folchia <folchia@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
a research group on the history of pharmacy at the Universidad
Complutense in Madrid. I wrote them asking how the name "Georg
Barchius" got into their bibliography. Here is their reply.

    > Dear friend: 
    > 
    > The name "barchius" appears in any [=some --JS] edition of
    > Barchusen's works at de Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. While I
    > was doing my "Tesis Doctoral" I've seen it. I'll see my notes
    > again and I'll go to the National Libray someday nextly, may be
    > this week. Then I'll writte you again and, I hope, can say you
    > more about it. But you must be sure that if the name Barchius is
    > relationated with the works of Barchusen in our web, may be for
    > any reason. So I think that Barchius is a latinized form used in
    > any edition and it haven't relation with the Barschius you're
    > looking for.
    
[I am not convinced by that explanation, since there are dozens of
webpages out there on J. C. Barchusen, and none of them mentions the
supposed alias Barchius. Moreover, it does not explain why Barchius
first name is "Georg". But let's wait and see.]

    > Now I'm analizing some correspondence between A. Kircher with J.
    > Caramuel. In other side I'm doing the same with the relation
    > between Lana-Terzi (You know him?) and A. Kircher to try to
    > establishe a relation with the three ones and alchemy. Sorry for
    > my bad english.
    
[I don't know whether they have seen Rene's pages with the letters to Kircher.
I will mention that just to be sure.]
    
    > PD: Excellent your work about the Voynich ms., really! May be you, or any
    > other person, send us a litle abstract (6/7 pages) to insert in the new
    > number of our review "Panacea"?

[I won't have the time to do this; any takers? Gabriel and Rene, what
about the Aesculapius article?]

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All the best,

--stolfi