Casaubon

This Genevan Protestant proved in 1614 De rebus sacris ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI published in London) that the texts of the Corpus Hermeticum are no earlier than the first centuries of the Christian Era. Some Hermetists deliberately ignored this discovery, others remained unaware of it but little by little, Alexandrian Hermetism found fewer admirers and commentators, since it was now known to be far less ancient than had been believed. For the situation in Germany, see above, section 2B. 

It still became the object of some presentations, adaptations, and translations, including  

Extracts from the Corpus Hermeticum in German Verba Hermetis in Pimandro, in Occulta Philosophia, vol. II (Frankfurt, 1613). 

First edition of a Dutch translation, in the work Wondei-Vondt van de eeuwighe bewegingh die den Alckmaeische Philosoph Cornelis Diebbel. . . (Alkmaar, 1607), the XVI Books. (This translation owes nothing to the Ms. one of 1580, mentioned above.) 

Dutch translation of the XVI Books of the Corpus Heimeticum (Amsterdam, 1643, reissued 1652) by Abraham Willemsz. Van Beyerland (the translator of Jacob Boehme) Sesthien Boecken met groote naarstigheyt van den Vooi-tiefflicken ouden Philosoph, Hermes Trismegistus, translated from the Latin text of Francesco Patrizi. 

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Casaubon, Meric. A treatise concerning enthusiasme, as it is an effect of Nature but is mistaken by many for Divine Inspiration, or Diabolical possession. London , 1654. 

Casaubon, Meric. A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr John Dee... and some spirits. London D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait, 1659. 

Sorcery and Witchcraft. London E. Curll, J. Pemberton and W. Taylor, 1715 DEE, JOHN A True Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee... and Some Spirits... His Private Conferences with Rodolphe Emperor of Germany... The Particulars of his Cause... his Banishment, and Restoration in part. As also the letters... to the said D. Dee. Out of the Original Copy, written with Dr. Dee s own Hand... With a Preface confirming the Reality (as to the Point of Spirits) of this Relation.. . by Meric. Casaubon... London forT. Garthwait, 1659... 

The legendary founder of western alchemy, who is thought to have been a priest in Old Kingdom Egypt. The writings ascribed to him were later dated by Isaac Casaubon in 1614 to the first centuries after Christ, although the wisdom they contain may be much older. 

Real academic study of the Corpus Hermeticum begins with Richard Reitzenstein, the first to undertake the study of these texts with full scientific rigor [Poimandres, Leipzig, 1904). But naturally one should not underestimate some of his predecessors, such as Casaubon, Tiedemann, Menard, Pietschmann, nor even Mead (see above for all of these). Esotericism at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century helped to stimulate erudite research into Hermetism. After Reizenstein, text-criticism and erudition are represented above all by Walter Scott and A. J. Festugiere ... 

Anthony Thomas Grafton, "Protestant versus Prophet Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegistus," in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 46 (1983), pp.78-93. 

Cadmus, 134 Calepinus, Ambrosius, 31 Calid the Saracen, 97 Campbell, Joseph, 68 Capra, Frithjof, 68 Cartari, Vicenzo, 30 Casaubon, Isaac, 40, 60, 61, 100, 103... 

In his analysts of this scene, Oat ley 1992, p. 259) argues that "jealousy is one of the emotions that Casaubon feels with the arrival of Ladislaw s letter." Actually, I believe, that emotion does not appear until Chapter 42, with Ladislaw s return from abroad. 

M.R.G. Spiller Concerning Natural Experimental Philosphy. Meric Casaubon [1599-... 

Radeke, H.S., Digits, C.A., Casaubon, R.L., and Snapper, M.L. (1999) Interactions of (—)-illimaquinone with methylation enzymes implications for vesicular-mediated secretion. Chem. Biol., 6, 639-647. 

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