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.
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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 13, 2024.
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☉ & ☽ ex ♃.
TAke of the filings of ♃ lbj. Salt-petre
lbj. mix them, separate the Spirit from
the Anima by combustion, Subliming it in
so many Pots as you know: Dissolve the
Caput Mortuum (which will be fixt as a
stone, so that you may strike {fire} out of it by
collision) with ☿, that there may be a Re∣gulus
made of it, which pour out and make
into Rods, and cement them with store of
Calx-vive on a Circulary {fire}, then Coppel
them with Lead, and add to them fine ☽,
what then remaineth upon the Coppel is
good, and you will have considerable gain
by it, and by the separation of A. F. you
will have three parts of ☽, and one of ☉.
But when you melt your Caput Mortuum
of ♄ with {antimony} into a Regulus, as before, when
you have Precipitated them with Tartar, or
mixed them, then put your Regulus to
Coppel, and in it you will find ☉: See that
you do not cast away the Scoria, for you
will find Silver amongst it; Coppel it
therefore by it self with the follow∣ing
Powder, so you will find ☽, which sepa∣rate
with A. F. (the Powder make thus.)
Take Chelamus (Bay Salt) melt, dissolve,
filtre, and coagulate it; melt it again, and
do this Work thrice: Then cast in this
Salt into the aforesaid Scoria (from which
you separated the Regulus) after you have
put it to Coppel, so your Work will be
done and accomplished speedily, and with
great fruit and profit in the applying the
fire.
Hartman.) The Famous Tachenius Re∣lates
(speaking of the malignity of Arsenick)
that there are some who can burn pure Tin
into Powder, which cannot again be reduced
into Tin by Vulgar Art, as other Metals; yet
with Arsenick it is made Scoria, part of which
by a singular Skill becometh pure ☽. Sigis∣mund
Wan, a Citizen in Voitland, knew
and practised this Art of Separation, to his
great benefit; for in the Year 1464 he Builded
and Endowed a great Hospital there, which,
as Gaspar Bruschius Relates, is at this day
to be seen, with the Epitaph of the aforesaid
Citizen.
Now, that ☽ may be got out of Tin with
Arsenick, Clavious proves in his Apology a∣gainst
Erastus Second Vol. Theatri Chym.
Fol. 39.