J. Antall szerk.: Medical history in Hungary 1972. Presented to the XXIII. International Congress of the History of Medicine / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 6. (Budapest, 1972)
E. Schultheisz and L. Tardy: The Contacts of the two Dees and Sir Philipp Sidney with the Hungarian Physicians
E. S çĥų ĥeis z—L. Tardy : The Contacts of the two Dees ... 103 Title Page of Arthur Dee's main work hunc librum Mör lađ in aedibus meis emi a Jo. Baptista Hardencurti pro sexaginta Angelotis aureis qui valent monetae nostrae Angliçáé libras triginta sterlingenses, 4. April 1567." This copy which includes the most important parts of the "Corpus Alchimisticum" was later donated by Dee to Landgrave Maurice of Hessen an ardent supporter of alchemy. Nearly all the pages of the manuscript display detailed marginal notes by John Dee who must have studied the manuscript intensively. 2 1 The "Fasciculus Chemicus" is actually an excerpt from the "Corpus Alchimisticum" and thus one of the most important secondary sources of the history of alchemy. It is hard to determine the exact place of the "Fasciculus Chemicus" in the history of science since in the period of its birth basic change came about in the history of alchemy. Many of the alchemists abandoned the retort and the melting-pot and turned fully to hermetic philosophy. This was the time when the chemist detached himself from the Hermetist. Chemistry became a natural science. Hermetism, however, lost its empirical ground and even its logical basis, and indulged in speculation, pouring forth shallow allegories. Let us refer here to C. Gustav Jung who plains this trend of alchemy in several of his studies. 2 2 According to these, the imagined property of matter is not necessarily its inherent quality but "derives from the soul of the alchemistAll that is unknown or empty is filled with psychological projection. The properties which the alchemist supposes to see or recognize in matter are his own —mostly subcons1 Goldschmidt, G.: Zur Sichtung und Erforschung der alchemistischen Handschriften . Basel, 1938. Cfr. Schultheisz, E.- Tardy L.: A két Dee és Magyarország (The two Dees and Hungary). Orvosi Hetilap, 1907, p. 1566.
