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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Includes the History of the Tablet, Followed By Multiple
Translations, Textual Remarks, Commentaries, Appendix, and
Bibliography -
It seems that the Corpus Hermeticum's text was written between 1st
century and 3rd century AD. The text consists of a set of writings
that arrived to us in Greek and Latin. The Latin translation of the
text, was done by Marsilio Ficino as an incunable, and was printed
for the first time in 1471. This work was attributed to mythical
Hermes Trismegistus (meaning "Hermes three times big"). This text
had a certain importance in the first centuries of the Church and
it was popular until the Middle Ages, having inspired hermetic
writings which started to bloom at that time. In the end of the
17th century, some writers stated that this text was a fake. This
hypothesis had to be totally denied when Corpus Hermeticum
manuscripts were found in 1945 in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in Coptic.
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