Opera chymica

Johann Rudolph Glauber war vor allem ein ungewöhnlich talentierter, praktischer Chemiker und Experimentator und zudem ein außerordentlich fruchtbarer Schriftsteller. Es gibt mindestens sechsundfünfzig deutsch geschriebene Schriften aus der Feder Glaubers, die zum Teil das explizite Ziel haben, die Wohlfahrt Deutschlands nach den Verheerungen des Dreißigjährigen Krieges zu heben. Seine kleineren Schriften werden hier erstmals gesammelt vorgelegt. Johann Rudolph Glauber was an unusually talented practical chemist and experimenter. In addition, he was a voluminous and gifted writer. This is the first collection of his works.****************"The publication of a two-volume facsimile edition of Glauber's 'Opera chymica' (original publication 1658-59) is a welcome event, of interest to students not only of early modern chymistry and alchemy but also of religion and entrepeneurship (…) Therefore, the availabilty once again of a good, old-fashioned codex at a price that most libraries can afford promises to be a stimulus to scholarship (…) Glauber is an agile, inventive and intelligent writer who has a great deal yet to teach us about what it meant to be a seventeenth-century German chymical „operator.“ There is no better place to start than here. The page reproductions in the facsimile are of good quality, and the edition includes fold-out illustrations, just like the original's. There is a new introduction by Hans-Werner Schütt; the original editor's preface appears (as it always did) at the beginning of Volume Two."