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.
Publication
London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by William Cooper ..., and Henry Faithorns and John Kersey ...,
1682.
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Subject terms
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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The Sixth Operation.
IS Projection. Take an hundred parts of
☿ purged the common way, heat them
in a Crucible, and add to them part j. of
the white or red stone, and the whole
will be a Medicine. Then take of this Me∣dicine
part j. and Project it upon another
hundred parts of ☿, moving it with a Rod,
and afterwards melting it. Further, Project
of this, part j. in an hundred parts, and the
whole will be ☉ or ☽, according as the
stone is which you took: If you will Pro∣ject
upon other Metals, melt them, or do
them into thin Plates, and on them when
they are very hot Project part j. upon an
hundred, and set the Plates in the {fire} for
some time. If you would augment the ver∣tue
of the Stone in infinitum, dissolve it as
often as you please in B. M. and coagulate
it slowly in Ashes; let Iupiter and Saturn
be melted.
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