Manget

It was included in Cardilucius, Magnalia medico-chymica, Numberg, 1676, in the Musaeum hermeticum reformatum et amplification, Frankfurt, 1678, and in Manget s compendium Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, 1702. [Transcribed by Jerry Bujas.]"... 

Edition consulted Jo. Jacob Manget, Bibliotheca chemica cuiiosa (Geneva, 1702), vol. I, p.509 facsimile ed., Sala Bolognese A. Forni, 1976. The title of this alchemical text is Liber de compositione Alchemiae, quern edidit Moiienus (pp.509-519). 

Plate 22. Daniel Stolzius von Stolzenberg, Hoitulus Hermeticus Flosculis Philosophorum Cupro Incisis Conformatus. . from Manget s Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, Geneva, 1702, vol. II, p.896. These medallions appeared first in 1618, in the third treatise of Johann Daniel Mylius s Opus medico-chymicum. By permission of Thames Hudson, Ltd. 

Some of the most definitive studies of Mg(II)-activated enzymes have been performed by mangetic resonance (NMR, ESR) methods with the Mn(ll)-substituted species. An integrated picture of the role of the metal ion in catalysis in almost all cases also includes data from kinetics (steady state and pre-steady state), equilibrium binding, and optical spectroscopic methods. As stated above, there are but a few examples of true Mn-containing enzymes, especially in mammalian sytems. Table 1 provides a non-exhaustive list of examples of both Mn-specific and Mn/Mg-activated enzymes. Within the latter category are enzymes that show a preference for but not absolute specificity for one ion or the other. The distinction between these categories is not simple, often being dependent upon the source or form of the enzyme and various parameters as the type of assay used, temperature, pH, and others. 

Kircher, in Manget, 1 78—79. For more on Kircher s rejection of the homunculus, see Martha Baldwin, Alchemy in the Society ofjesus, in Alchemy Revisited, ed. Z. R. W M. von Martels (Leiden Brill, 1990), 182-187. 

The rejection of excessive heat and corrosive waters forms a major theme of the Epistola ad Tho mam de Bononia by Bernard of Trier, composed in the late fourteenth century. See the version printed in Manget, 2 399—408, especially 400. The violent torture of mercury and other substances by unlearned chymists is extensively ridiculed in one of the most popular alchemical works of the seventeenth century, the Novum lumen chymicum of Michael Sendivogius. See Manget, 2 477-478. 

See for example, Petrus Bonus, Margaritapretiosa novella, in Manget, 2 17, where artificial vitriol is used as evidence that man can successfully imitate nature. 

Bacon, Roger. Epistola de secretis operibus artis et naturae, in Manget, Bibliotheca, vol. 1, pp. 616-625. 

Manget, Jean Jacques. Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, 2 vols. (Geneva Chouet et al. 1702). 

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