xvi. The Triumphal Chariot of A ntimony. 



tine began to be issued from the press. 

 Under his editorial auspices The Tract 

 of the Great Stone appeared in 1602, 

 the treatise Concerning Natural and 

 Supernatural Things in 1603, and The 

 Triumphal Chariot of Antimony in 1 604. 

 That Placcius was aware of these facts 

 seems doubtful, but he knew that in 

 1603 there was published at Eissleben a 

 work entitled Haligraphia, on the title- 

 page of which Thoelde is indicated as 

 the author.* Now in 1644, under the 

 auspices of another editor, a certain por- 

 tion of this book was translated into 

 Latin, and published as a work of Basil 

 Valentine t under the slightly altered 

 name of Haliographia. The claim of 

 its editor that it is produced from the 



* Haligraphia : that is, a Complete and Exhaustive 

 Description of all the Mineral Salts, effectively describing 

 the Salt of the First Matter, the tests for Salt Waters, the 

 means of obtaining the Salt of the Sun through fire, by 

 various methods, and the improvement of the same. By 

 Johann Thoelde Hesse. At the cost of Jacob Apel, book- 

 seller, Eissleben, 1603, 8vo. 



t It represents less than half the original, namely, from 

 p. 1 68 onwards, as far as p. 310, missing the Lonclusio 

 Autoris, and other matter at the end. 



