Johann Daniel Mylius
Illustration — Illustration from Mylius' 1628 Anatomia auri • Illustration — Illustration from Mylius' 1618 Opus medico-chymicum Johann Daniel Mylius (c. Johann Daniel Mylius was born at Wetter in present-day Hesse, Germany, he went on to study theology and medicine at the University of Marburg. He was the brother-in-law and pupil of Johann Hartmann (1568–1613).
Johann Daniel Mylius
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- Germany.
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- physician, musician, composer, lutenist, independent publisher and alchemist.
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- Latin.
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Illustration — Illustration from Mylius' 1628 Anatomia auri • Illustration — Illustration from Mylius' 1618 Opus medico-chymicum Johann Daniel Mylius (c. Johann Daniel Mylius was born at Wetter in present-day Hesse, Germany, he went on to study theology and medicine at the University of Marburg. He was the brother-in-law and pupil of Johann Hartmann (1568–1613).
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In 1616, while still a medical student, Mylius published Duncan Burnet's Iatrochymicus. The Opus medico-chymicum, Mylius' own alchemical work, was published two years later. He is known for the collection Thesaurus gratiarum (1622) of pieces for the lute. In the same year his Philosophia Reformata was published. Mylius was the personal physician of Moritz of Hessen and his patrons included Maurice and Frederick Henry of Nassau.
• Opus medico-chymicum. 1618. • Antidotarium. 1620. • Philosophia reformata. 1622. • Anatomia auri. 1628. • Danielis Milii Pharmacopoeae spagyricae, sive Practicae universalis Galeno-chymicae libri duo. - Francofurti: Schönwetter, 1628. digital edition
![Aurograph entry in Stolcenberg's 'Viridarium Chymicum...' by Mylius [Johann Daniel]. 'Medicus et chemicus' Archives Manuscripts](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Entry_in_Stolcenberg%27s_%27Viridarium...%27_by_J._D._Mylius_Wellcome_L0042481.jpg/800px-Entry_in_Stolcenberg%27s_%27Viridarium...%27_by_J._D._Mylius_Wellcome_L0042481.jpg)
Aurograph entry in Stolcenberg's 'Viridarium Chymicum...' by Mylius [Johann Daniel]. 'Medicus et chemicus' Archives Manuscripts
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Johannes Daniel Mylius. Line engraving, 1620. Iconographic Collections
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1642
Johann Daniel Mylius died.
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- 1.Debus, Allen. Chemistry and the universities in the seventeenth century. Estudos Avançados. 4. 10. 173–196. 1990. 10.1590/S0103-40141990000300009.
- 2.Lynn Thorndike. History of Magic and Experimental Science, Part 12. p.177
- 3.Mylius 1622 Thesaurus gratiarum (list of pieces).
- 4.Mylius 'Philosophia Reformata' series.
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