Adrian von Mynsicht (1603–1638) was a German
alchemist. He is best known for the
allegorical
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work ''Aureum Saeculum Redivivum'' (The Golden Age Restored), published under the pseudonym Henricus Madathanus, and usually dated to 1621/2. It was soon reprinted in collections, the ''Musaeum Hermeticum
and the ''Dyas Chymica Tripartita'', both 1625 (Frankfurt, same publisher).
He wrote also the ''Thesaurus et Armamentarium Medico-Chymicum'' (1631), a medical work.
[''A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases'' was the subtitle of the English translatio]
Mynsicht was said in the latter part of a short life to have been a physician.
Works
* ''Hadriani a Mynsicht Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum''. -
Lübeck, Lubecae : Schernwebel / Schmalherz, 1638
digital edition* ''Hadriani a Mynsicht Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum : in quo selectissimorum contra quosuis morbos pharmacorum conficiendorum secretissima ratio aperitur, una cum eorundem virtute, usu, & dosi.'' - Lugduni : Huguetan, 164
digital edition* ''Hadriani a Mynsicht alias Tribudenii Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum''. - Lubecae : Schernwebel, 1646
digital edition* ''Hadriani a Mynsicht Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum''. -
Rothomagi : Berthelin, 1651
digital edition* ''Hadriani a Mynsicht Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum''. - Lubecae : A. J. Becker / Schmalherz, 1662
digital edition*''Hadriani a Mynsicht Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum : hoc est selectissimorum, contra quosvis morbos, pharmacorum conficiendorum secretissima ratio, propria laborum experientia, multiplici & felicissima praxi confirmata, & nunc una cum remediorum virtute, usu, & dosi, doctrinae, & sapietiae filiis fideliter revelata & communicata''. -
Francofurti : Wust, 1675
digital edition* ''Adriani a Mynsicht Medicinisch-chymische Schatz- und Rüst-Kammer''. - Stuttgart : Zubrodt / Lorber, 1686
digital edition* ''Adriani a Mynsicht Medicinisch-chymische Schatz- und Rüst-Kammer
drian of Mynsicht's medical-chemical Treasury and Armoury'. - Offenbach a.M. : Brunn & Metzler, 1695
digital edition
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1603 births
1638 deaths
German alchemists
17th-century alchemists