Thomas Norton (alchemist)
- Thomas Norton (alchemist)
Thomas Norton (c.1433-c.1513) was an English poet and alchemist. He is known as the author of the "Ordinall of Alchemy" (1477), an alchemical poem of around 3000 lines. According to Jonathan Hughes ["Arthurian Myths and Alchemy" (2002), p.102-3.] , Norton was born in Colne, Wiltshire. He became an alchemist in the 1450s, and was a courtier at the court of Edward IV of England, to whom the "Ordinall" was dedicated.
The "Ordinall" gained a wide reputation in a Latin verse translation, in the 1618 "Tripus Aureus" of Michael Maier. [ [http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/detaild.cfm?DID=7320] . The other authors in the collection were Basil Valentine, and the pseudonymous John Cremer, Abbot of Westminster.] The English original was included in the 1652 "Theatrum chemicum Britannicum" of Elias Ashmole. [Fascimile text in "Ordinall of Alchemy" (1929) editor E. J. Holmyard.]
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References
*Reidy, John (ed.)(1975), "Thomas Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy" (ISBN 0197222749)
External links
* [http://www.bartleby.com/212/0807.html]
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