From the preface: ‘’The present work which we have entitled Treatise on the Great Art is composed of the introductory remarks preceding the principal works on Alchemy of the savant dom Pernety. …. At an early age he joined the Benedictine Congregation of Saint-Maur and there devoted his life to these patient studies for which Benedictine monks are justly famous; he published numerous works on theology and fine arts, geography and mythology, philosophy and mathematics, but he became celebrated for his researches in the realm of the hidden Sciences.
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