Forman, Simon

Forman, Simon.The autobiography and personal diary of Dr S. Forman... edited by J. O. Halliwell. Edited by J O. Halliwell. London For private circulation, 1849. 32p. 

Forman, Simon. "Compositor huis Libri ad Lectorum, 1597." In Alchemical poetry 1575-1700, ed. Robert M. Schuler, 66-68., 1995. 

Forman, Simon. Of the Division of Chaos. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemy/forman chaos.html]. 

MS Ashmole 1494 (ND) Forman, Simon (n.d., but late sbc-teenth or early seventeenth century) Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Ashmole 1494... 

Schmitz JE, Kuroda MJ, Santra S, Sasseville VG, Simon MA, lifton MA, Racz P, Tenner-Racz K, Dalesandro M, Scallon BJ, Ghrayeb J, Forman MA, Montefioii DC, Richer EP, Letvin NL, Reimann KA (1999) Control of viremia in simian immunodeficiency virus infection by CD8+ lymphocytes. Science 283 857-860... 

This alchemical poem by the physician, astrologer, magician and alchemist, Simon Forman (1552-1611) is in the Bodleian Library Oxford, MS Ashmole 240. For my transcription I have modernised the spelling and adjusted the punctuation. - Adam McLean"... 

Kassell, Lauren T. Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London Simon Forman, astrologer, alchemist, and physician. Oxford Clarendon P, 2005. xviii, 281 p. ISBN 0-19-927905-5... 

Kassell, Lauren T. "Simon Forman s philosophy of medicine medicine, astrology and alchemy in London, c. 1580-1611." DPhil thesis, Univ of Oxford, 1997. 

Traister, Barbara Howard. The notorious astrological physician of london works and days of Simon Forman. Chicago (IL) Univ of Chicago P, 2001. 250p. 

Rowse, A.L. The case books of Simon Forman sex and society in Shakespeare s age. London Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1974. 

The character of Subtle might be based on Simon Forman, who is mentioned by name in another of Jonson s plays. Forman, born in 1552, seems to have been a medical quack who sold love philters as a sideline. He was fined several times for pretending to cure the ill and was also sent to prison a number of times. In 1594 he began to tell fortunes and to experiment with transmutation. He attracted several wealthy customers, mostly women. Once he was asked to provide philters to the countess of Essex, who wanted to divorce her husband and win the love of the earl of Somerset. These facts came out during the murder trial of a woman who had acted as a go-between on behalf of the countess. 

One hundred copies were printed privately. The autobiography and personal diary of Dr Simon Forman, ed. James Halliwell, (1849). See also Forman s diary , ed. Halliwell, 34—7. Rowse, Forman, 267—302, includes these texts and part of a family history, Ashm. 208, fos. 218—23.1 have relied on the MSS. 

The autobiography and personal diary of Dr Simon Forman, ed. James RRalliwell (1849). These texts are Ashm. 208, fos. 136-42,1-74. 

Simon Forman s nativity, Ashm. 206, fo. 218. By permission University of Oxford. 

Simon Formans copy of George Ripley s The compound of alchemy , Ashm. 1490, fo. 116. By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. 

Simon Forman, The groundes of the longitude (1591), title-page. By permission of the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Shelfmark 11.17.92(6). 

Simon Forman The grounds of arte , e.1594-5, Ashm. 1495, fo. 3. By permission ofthe Bodleian Library University of Oxford. 

King s MS 16 Mary Edmond, Simon Forman s Vade-Mecum , Book Collectory 26 (1977), 44—60. 

Simon Formans note of the purchase of a book in Cbrford on 2 Feb. 1574, Kings MS 16, fo. i. By permission of the Provost and Fellows of King s College, Cambridge. 

Traister, Forman, is an exception. See also her Medicine and Astrology in Elizabethan England The Case of Simon Forman, Transaetions and Studies of the College ofPhysieians of Philadelphia, ii (1989), 279—97 Traister (ed.), Matrix and the Pain Thereof A Sixteenth-Century Gynaecological Essay, Medical History, 35 (1991), 436-51. 

Entries in Simon Formans casebooks for i6 October 1598, Ashm permission of the Bodleian Libraiy, University of Oxford... 

The first page of Simon Forman s recipe for his Water imperialle , Sloane 2550, fo. 124. By permission of the British Lihrary. 

Simon Forman, Matrix and paine therop, 1596, Ashm. 390, fo. 175, By permission the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. 

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