A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.
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- A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.
- Author
- Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
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- London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by William Cooper ..., and Henry Faithorns and John Kersey ...,
- 1682.
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- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
- Alchemy.
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"A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35968.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, ROBERT, Lord Paston, Baron of Paston, Vicount and Earl of Yarmouth.
My Lord,
IT is not my intention, nor indeed my Ta∣lent, to Celebrate those Excellent Virtues, which shine so eminently bright in your Lord∣ship: For they are Themes only fit to be treated on by the strongest Pen, and their Native Worth and Resplendency are their own suffici∣ent Panegyricks.
Yet such is the Veneration I have for the Excellent Qualities and Endowments of your Noble Mind, and those Heroick inclinations, that move your Honour to make such exact, diligent, and curious search into all the Secrets and Mysteries of Nature, and encourage all others that Labour therein, that I cannot for∣bear being so vain as to publish my resentments thereof to the World. These Reasons, My Lord, together with the consideration of your inbred Candour and Generosity, encouraged me to the boldness of committing this small Treatise to your Honours Patronage and Pro∣tection: To whom I know it will be more
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welcome, as containing in it the Choice Ob∣servations, both in Physick and Chymistry, of that Famous Man, and great Privy Coun∣cellor of Nature, Sir K. D. A Name, My Lord, that hath peculiar Charms with it, to recommend all that are under its great shadow, to the value and consideration of all the dili∣gent, the Learned, and the Honourable: So great a Person (may I assume the vanity to say so) I had the Honour and Happiness for several Years to Serve, beyond the Seas, as well as in England, and to attend on him mo•••• particularly in the Production of many of h•••• incomparable Experiments, and so to contin•••• till his dying day; when he left with me tho•••• Choice things contained in this little Treatise.
And since I fear they suffer diminution 〈◊〉〈◊〉 their Worth and Beauty, by passing throug•• my mean Hands, and weak Managery, thought I could make no better Atonement than by recommending them to receive R••∣cruits and Reinforcements from the Splendo•••• and Eminency of your Illustrious Name. To that end therefore I take the Boldness to pro∣strate them at your Honours Feet, where a•••• in all Humility lyes
Your Honours Most Obedient, and Most Devoted Servant, George Hartma••