quelque peu sorcier, * a bit of a wizard

24. cornues, 'retorts,' so called from their projecting or^^m-like neoks.

25. les plillosoplies hermétiques, 'occult philosophers ' ; so called trom the legendary Hermès Trismegistus, a Greek version of the Egyptian god Thoth, who was regarded as the founder of ail sciences, and especially of occult and magie arts.

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