Aaron Leitch doth schreibble:
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> What I would like to know is whether or not there are alchemical
> lists, that Dee is likely to have consulted, that attribute tin
> to Mercury.
List A, in Zuretti's *Catalogue des manuscrits
alchimiques grecs*, shows the following :
Saturn: lead
Jupiter: electrum
Mars: iron
Sun: gold
Venus: bronze
*Mercury: tin*
Moon: silver
This list is identical to that found in the *Scholia*
on Pindar: *Isthmian 4:2*, and in Proclus: *Procli in
Platonis Timaeum commentaria* 18B, volume 1, page 43,
ed. E. Diehl, 3 volumes, 1903–6, cf. Olympiodorus:
*In Aristotelis Meteorologica* 3,6, pages 266-267, ed.
Wilhelm Stuve, 1900.
With regard to the yellow lettering:
I make my own mineral pigments and paints, and there is
an entire /range/ of yellow pigments derived from minerals
that were available in Dee's day ( and now ), as well as
brilliant vegetable dyes that were often blended with them.
See :
*Realgar*
@WebExhibits.org
http://tinyurl.com/28buf7d
*Orpiment/Auripigmentum*
@WebExhibits.org
http://tinyurl.com/2f7kxgq
*Lead-Tin Yellow*
@WebExhibits.org
http://tinyurl.com/2by8wwx
*Naples Yellow*
@WebExhibits.org
http://tinyurl.com/27j56a5
*Yellow Ochre*
@WebExhibits.org
http://tinyurl.com/27vy9x4
The Ocher above isn't really a good example - take a look
at these:
*Natural Earth and Ochers*
@EarthPigments.com
http://tinyurl.com/2flao68
Gold leaf or powder clearly wasn't the only, or even the
most likely, of the options for the colouring matter
employed in making the Holy Table.
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
*Of the Division of Chaos*
-Dr. Simon Forman
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