Aristotelian Corpuscular Theory and Andreas Libavius

Thomas Erastus, Explicatio quaestionisjhmosae illim, utrum ex metallis ignohiliorihus aurum verum naturale arte conflari possit (appendix to Disputationes de nova Philippi Paracelsi medicina [1572]), pp. 71, 82, and 98. 

The influence oiMeteorology IV per se is the subject of a recent dissertation by Craig Martin, Interpretation and Utility The Renaissance Commentary Tradition on Aristotle s Meteorologica IV (Ph. D. diss., Harvard University, 2002). 

The alchemical tradition before Paracelsus had stressed analysis, but not resynthesis. This would change with the new emphasis on spagyria. 

Aristotle, Meteorology (H. D. P. Lee), pp. xiii-xxi, Furley, Mechanics of Meteorologica IV,  

The modems call it spagiria (aTTay ipiav). Leo Suavius does not know from 

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