Note 3059 — Chapter XXXIII · TREATISES ON THE ARTS BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF ARABIC ALCHEMY

W. Stubbs, in RS LXIII, p. cix. C. L. Barnes, Science in Early England, in Smithsonian Report for 1895, p. 732. Of the alchemy ascribed to Dunstan, Elias Ashmole remarked in his Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, 1652, “He who shall have the happiness to meet with St. Dunstan’s work De occulta philosophia ... may therein read such stories as will make him amazed to think what stupendous and immense things are to be performed by virtue of the Philosopher’s Mercury, of which a taste only and no more.”