Re: VMs: Georg Barchius - deja ne pas vu

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

A copy of Pyrosophia is available in London at www.abebooks.com under the 
following listing:


  PYROSOPHIA,
BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad.

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 Book Description: 1698. Succincte atque brevier Iatro-Chemiam, Rem 
Metallicam et Chrysopoeiam Pervestigans. Opus Medicis, Physicis, Chemicis, 
Pharmacopoeis, Metallicis &c. non inutile. Lugduni Batavorum, Impensis 
Cornellii Boutestein. 1698. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 8., 469, [1]; title in 
red and black; with wood vignette on title, woodcut engraved head- and 
tail-pieces and initials, and five engraved plates (one folding); title-page 
and first few leaves lightly browned with minor damp stain affecting upper 
edge, occasional slight spotting and browning throughout, principally 
marginal; bound in contemporary vellum boards, sympathetically rebacked at 
some time in old vellum, extremities slightly soiled, spine lettered in ink; 
with the book plate of Robert Honeyman on front paste-down; an excellent, 
crisp copy. Rare first edition, and the Honeyman copy, of this attractive 
textbook of chemistry, one of the first to employ the notion of affinity. 
Barchusen (1666-1723) was extraordinary professor of chemistry at Utrecht 
University and was provided with a laboratory by the city fathers. - 
'Barchusen's published work reflects his personal development from 
practising pharmacist to professor of a new academic discipline, chemistry 
. The Physophia is a formal, systematic textbook that deals with the 
principles of chemistry, both theoretical and practical, and then attempts 
to demonstrate their applications to natural philosophy, medicine, 
metallurgy, and alchemy. The bulk of the work is descriptive, preparative 
iatrochemistry of a conventional type; but the syllabi of his laboratory 
courses for 1695-1697, included as an appendix to the volume, show an 
increasing tendency to emphasise chemistry as the analysis and synthesis of 
bodies of fire, relegating the preparative iatrochemistry to a secondary 
part of the course. All the syllabi contain sections devoted to 
metallurgical assay and to alchemy. In this last part, the students were 
shown how most alleged transmutations could be explained in terms of 
displacement reactions of metals'. (DSB) - The plates are most attractive. 
The folding one depicts the interior of the Utrecht laboratory, with stills 
and Barchusen(?) seated at a table holding a pair of apothecary's scales. 
Caillet 717; Ferguson I pp. 71-2; Hoover 88; Partington II pp. 700-2; not in 
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Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jean-yves artero" <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Georg Barchius - deja ne pas vu


> Hi again,
>
> About Baresch, Barsch,etc, here probably is the list Jorge is thinking 
> upon:
>
>
> Barchius, Georg, Pyrosophia, Leiden, 1698.
>
> --Liber singularis de alchimia, Lyon, 1699.
>
> --Elementa chemiae quibus subiuncta est conjectura lapidis philosophici 
> imaginibus repraesentata, Leiden, Theodor Haak, 1718.
>
> --Traité de la pierre philosophale, Lyon, Derain, 1720.
> And here is the site:
>
> http://www.ucm.es/info/folchia/Blibros.htm
>
> IMHO the last title is generally considered as Barchusen s work.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jean
>
>
> Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > [Rene:] [Re Barchius book at Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek]
> > I have a feeling of deja vu though...
>
> Now that you mention it... Yes, back in March/2002! At that time,
> thanks to Google and a providential typing error on my part, I
> stumbled on a list of three books attributed to "Georg Barchius".
> Unfortunately Rafal quickly pointed out that the author of those books
> was a certain Johann Conrad Barchusen.
>
> However, that did not explain where the name "Georg Barchius" came
> from. The source in question was a bibliography on the history of
> pharmacy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, maintained by a
> research group called "Folchia". Apparently the bibligraphy did
> contain an entry for "Georg Barchius", but some mixup occurred
> somewhere, which the result that Barchusen's name got dropped, and his
> books were listed just after the name "Georg Barchius".
>
> I wrote to the group's address, and got this reply (with my comments
> in brackets):
>
> > 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?]
>
> > GRUPO FOLCHIA
> > Historia de la Farmacia
> > Facultad de Farmacia, U.C.M.
> > Plaza de Ramón y Cajal, s/n
> > 28040-MADRID
> > Tlfno.: 91.394.17.95
> > e-mail: folchia@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > web: http://www.ucm.es/info/folchia/
>
> I then tried the librarians at UCM, and eventually got information
> from Cristina Ortiz of the Facultad de Farmacia Library that all
> historical books from all UCM libraries had been gathered at the
> Biblioteca Histórica; but Mercedes Cabello of the latter said that
> they had no record of any book by "Georg Barchius".
>
> And there that lead, unfortunately, died...
>
> ... until now, it seems! I presume that Miguel López was the anonymous
> compiler of the Folchia bibliography with whom I corresponded in 2002,
> and that he finally found the source of the "Georg Barchius" entry ---
> not in Madrid, as he had thought, but in Vienna.
>
> So, anyone got hold of that book? Could its author be our Georg
> Baresch? Does the book give any other clues about the author?
>
> All the best,
>
> --stolfi
>
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