Editing Andreas Libavius (section)

==Works==
[[File:Plate xviii chymie cn69m494r dr26xz05s dl full size.jpg|thumb|right|Plate XVIII: Chymie, Volume III of [[Denis Diderot]]'s ''Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication''. Diderot's allegorical image of chemistry has at its base the text "PARADIGMA OPERIS PHILOSOPHICI, E. Libavio," in homage to Andreas Libavius.]]

Within a span of 25 years (1591–1616) Libavius wrote more than 40 works in the field of [[logic]], [[theology]], [[physics]], [[medicine]], [[chemistry]], [[pharmacy]] and [[poetry]]. He was actively involved in [[polemics]], especially in the fields of chemistry and alchemy, and as such many of his writings were controversial at the time.

Libavius was an orthodox Lutheran, and in his theological treatises, which he wrote under the pseudonym of Basilius de Varna, he criticized Catholicism, specifically the [[Jesuit]] order, and later on in his life, [[Calvinism]]. This can also be seen in some of his non-theological works, particularly in some of the works produced during his involvement with the conflict between the [[Paracelsus|Paracelsists]], anti-Paracelsists, [[Galen]]ists, and [[Hermeticism (history of science)|Hermetics]].<ref name="dictionarybio1" />

In 1597, he wrote the first systematic [[chemistry]] textbook, ''Alchymia'', where he described the possibility of [[Chrysopoeia|transmutation]]. In this book he also showed that cuprous salt lotions are detectable with [[ammonia]], which causes them to change color to dark blue. In 1615 he wrote ''Syntagmatis alchamiae arcanorum'' where he detailed the production of [[tin chloride]], something that he developed in 1605. He was not the first person to invent this process, however, as the Franciscan friar Ulmannus had discovered it earlier and wrote about in the book ''[[Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit]]'' in 1415.

He also contributed works to the study of medicine. Between 1599 and 1601 he wrote ''Singularia'', a four volume collection of lectures on natural science, which included a collection of descriptions and discussions about medical phenomena. In 1610  he published one of the first German medical texts, ''Tractatus Medicus Physicus und Historia des fürtrefflichen Casimirianischen SawerBrunnen/ unter Libenstein/ nicht fern von Schmalkalden gelegen''.

===Other works===
*''Quaestionum physicarum'' – 1591
*''Dialectica'' – 1593
*''Neoparacelsica'' – 1594
*''Tractatus duo physici'' – 1594
*''Exercitiorum logicorum liber'' – 1595
*''Dialogus logicus'' – 1595
*''Antigramania'' – 1595
*''Gegenbericht von der Panacea Amwaldina, auff Georg vom Waldt davon aussgegangenen Bericht'' – 1595
*''Singularium pars prima … pars secunda'' – 1595
*''Tetraemerum'' – 1596
*''Commentationum metallicorum libri '' – 1597
*''Variarum controversarium libri duo'' – 1601
*''Analysis dialéctica colloquii Ratisbonensis'' – 1602
*''Poemata epica, lyrica, et elegica'' – 1602
*''Alchymistische Practic'' – 1603 ([http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn278814670 Digitalisat])
*''Gretserus triumphatus'' – 1604
*''Praxis alchymiae'' – 1604
*''Alchymia triumphans'' – 1607
*''Pharmacopea'' – 1607
*''Syntagma selectorum'' – 1611
*''Syntagma arcanorum'' – 1613
*''Syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum '' – 1613
*''Examen philosophiae novae'' – 1615
*''Analysis confessionis Fraternitatis de Rosae Cruce'' – 1615
*''Wolmeinendes Bedencken / Von der Fama, und Confession der Brüderschaft deß Rosen Creutzes'' – 1616