The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

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I did not even know Latin can use diacritics (but in rare cases) and it's one of those things I'll check out sooner of later.

Marci's published book Philosophia Vetus Restituta (ed. 1662, 1676) has the same "â" meaning from/by. Most Latin books of the 17th century did not use the circumflex accent at all.

Did anyone transcribe or translate Philosophia Vetus Restituta? Would it be worth doing? (600 pages...) I know Marci was influenced by the alchemist Barschius. His name appears twice in the book. There might be some oblique reference to the VMS in it, even though I don't expect anything obvious.

The OCR by Google is not too bad, some f/s need to be fixed of course.

p. 280:

Cùm enim ante annos 40. familiaritatem iniissem cum M. Georgio Barschio rerum chymicarum peritissimo, de quibus colloquia inter nos erant; cœpi acriter obsistere iis, quæ ab illo mihi tum nova & Philosophiæ meæ minùs consentanea dicebantur.

Google translation:

For when, 40 years ago, I had become acquainted with M. Georgius Barschius, a great expert in chemical matters, about which we had conversations, I began to sharply oppose those things which were then said to me by him as new and less in keeping with my philosophy.