Libavius

On the one hand, we have men of much chemical knowledge and skill such as Libavius and van Helmont, on the other hand we have those who stand equally as high as exponents of mystic wisdom -- men such as Jacob Boehme and, to a less extent, Thomas Vaughan.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

Libavius and many deride and carp at, yet some will have to be the [782] renewer of all arts and sciences, reformer of the world, and now living, for so

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Libavius says that it grows in the Hyrcinian forest.

Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 Various

Libavius, a native of Halle, in Saxony, remarked that while wounds are healed by nature, pretended magical remedies may be of use by directing the natural forces to the spot, _through the imagination_.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

Libavius was a man possessed of keen powers of observation; and his work on Chemistry, which contains a full account of the knowledge of the science of his time, may be regarded as the first text-book of Chemistry.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

Rosicrucians against the charges of "detestable magic and diabolical superstition" brought against them by Libavius.

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

Besides this, he wrote several other works upon alchymy, a second answer to Libavius upon the Rosicrucians, and many medical works.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

The fraternity having been violently attacked by several German authors, and among others by Libavius, Fludd volunteered a reply, and published, in

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

_Libavius_, though he find great fault with the obscurity of what the Chymists write concerning their Mercurial

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

Champion for the Hypostatical Principles, does almost as frequently as justly complain of the unsatisfactoriness of what the Chymists teach concerning their Mercury; and yet he himself (but with his wonted modesty) Substitutes instead of the Description of _Libavius_, another, which many Readers, especially if they be not Peripateticks, will not know what to make of.

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659