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De mineralibus
De mineralibus
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- Traditions
- Natural philosophy Alchemy
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
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In this study
Albertus Magnus studies stones, metals and intermediate substances through Aristotelian natural philosophy while recording alchemical and astrological theories current in the thirteenth century.
Book III records the complete later-standard series of seven planetary metals in one explicit passage.
Cited for 7 sourced claims here, among them correspondences of Copper, Gold, Iron, Jupiter, Lead, Mars, Mercury and Moon.