Chymical secrets and rare experiments in physick & philosophy with figures collected and experimented / by the Honourable and learned Sir Kenelm Digby ...
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Chymical secrets and rare experiments in physick & philosophy with figures collected and experimented / by the Honourable and learned Sir Kenelm Digby ...
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Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
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London :: Printed for Will Cooper ...,
1683.
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Chemistry -- Early works to 1800.
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An Operation upon Jupiter.
DIstill a Menstruum out of Vitriol and {sal armoniac}, with which make Sulphur naturae Iovis: Make also with the same Menstruum Sulphur nat. ☽, which dissolve into Oyl, and with it insere Sulphur Iovis ad fusibilita∣tem, and then project upon Iupiter.
Dunston thus: Having taken our white Earth, you may putrifie it by it self, or with the Calx of other Metals, and change its co∣lour into a new white or red: Then ferment it with the Oyl of ☉ or ☽, &c.
Riply (in his Viaticum) thus: Calcine ♃ into a most subtil Calx (for in it there is pure ☿, not brought to its full perfection by Nature) which is easily hardened with the Oyl of ☽. Do your Work therefore with Tin (until you are Rich) because so the Work is easily done, and at small charge.
Lullius (in his Magia Naturalis) thus: Make Sulphur naturae (without which no∣thing can be done) and thus of any Metal (which he directeth to do in a very tedious