Bernard Gilles Penot
Bernard Gilles Penot (1519-1617) was a French alchemist from the Renaissance and a friend of Nicolas Barnaud.
The influential three volume Theatrum Chemicum from 1602, a compendium of early alchemical writings, included the text of entitled: Treatise varii, the vera praeparatione et usu Medicamentorum chemicorum (Praefatio, De medicamentis chemicis). According to Didier Kahn he was also the publisher of the Centum quindecim curationes in 1582 which was attributed to Paracelsus.[1]
Further reading
- Didier Kahn, Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567-1625) [Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 80]. Geneva: Droz, 2007.
- Eugène Olivier, "Bernard Gilles Penot (Du Port), médecin et alchimiste (1519-1617)" Chrysopoeia, vol 5 (1992-1996) pp. 571–668
Notes
- ↑ Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567-1625)
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