Casaubon, Isaac

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... 

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. 

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. 

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