A description of new philosophical furnaces, or, A new art of distilling, divided into five parts : whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile : also the first part of the mineral work : set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth (1651)
Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670, French, John, 1616-1657 · London : Printed by Richard Coats, for Tho. Williams ... · leaf 426
7 he conclufi'n. ET no man doubt of the truth of what hath been faidin thefe Annotations.For nature and ait can do many things, but our art is little in vegetableSjand almoft nothing in metals, and this is the reafbn, that things never feen or heard, feeme incredible and monftrous to the Ignorant.…
Distillation · Gold · Antimony · Metallurgy
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