Pseudo-Avicenna

The subjects of the metals, their properties, and the operation for their preparation so important in all early chemistry are naturally extensively treated. Isidorus is cited 20 There are seven kinds of metals, namely, gold, silver, copper (aes), electrum, tin, lead and iron which subdues all things. The Alchemia de Anima of (pseudo-) Avicenna is quoted 2T... 

William R. Newman, The Summaperfectionis"of Pseudo-Geber Leiden Brill, 1991), 49—50. For the Arabic text and a translation therefrom, see Avicenna, Avicennae de congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, ed. and tr. E.J. Holmyard and D. C. Mandeville (Paris PaulGeuthner, 1927), 85—86,41—42. 

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