Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury which many have studiously endeavoured to hide, but these to make manifest for the benefit of mankind in general.

Title

Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury which many have studiously endeavoured to hide, but these to make manifest for the benefit of mankind in general.

Author

Houpreght, John Frederick.

Publication

London :: Printed for William Cooper ...,

1680.

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Subject terms

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• publisher's advertisement
• To the most High and Mighty Monarch CHARLES the II. By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith.
• THE CONTENTS of this BOOK.
• treatise - 1
  • title page
  • TO THE READER.
  • Hydropyrographum Hermeticum.
• treatise - 2
  • title page
  • THE PRIVY SEAL OF SECRETS.
    • The Practice.
• treatise - 3
  • title page
  • The following Letter was communicated by the most Serene Prince Frederick Duke of Holsatia and Sles∣wick, and relates things strange and unheard-of.
• treatise - 4
  • title page
  • A TREATISE OF MERCVRY And the Philosophers Stone.
• Colours to be observed in the Operation of the Great Work.
• treatise - 6
  • title page
  • THESAVRVS, Sive Medicina Aurea.
• treatise - 7
  • title page
  • Tractatus de Lapide, Manna benedicto, &c.
    • For Health, the use of it thu.
    • The way to Multiply.
    • To make Stones.
    • To make Diamonds.
    • To turn Metals into Quick-silver.
    • The Creation.
    • The Heavens.
    • Fellowship.
• treatise - 8
  • title page
  • Nicolas Flammell's Summary of Philosophy.
• treatise - 9
  • title page
  • CLAVICULA, OR, A little Key of Raymond Lullie Majoricane.
    • CHAP. I. Of the difference between Argent vive Vulgar, and Argent vive Natural.
    • CHAP. II. The extraction of Mercury out of the Perfect Body.
    • CHAP. III. Of the Multiplication of our Argent vive.
    • CHAP. IV. The Property of the said Calx, or Slime.
    • CHAP. V. Multiplication of the Calx.
    • CHAP. VI. The Reduction of this Calx viva, into Luna.
    • CHAP. VII. Of our great Work to the White, and to the Red.
• SECRETS DISCLOS'D.
• A Philosophical Riddle.
• treatise - 12
  • title page
  • The Answer of Bernardus Trevisanus, to the Epistle of Thomas of Bononia, Physician to King Charles the Eighth.
• The Prefatory Epistle of Ber∣nard Earl of Tresne, to the noble Doctor and most learned Philosopher Tho∣mas of Bononia.
  • section
  • note
• A brief Rehearsal of the Preparation of the Philo∣sophers Stone.
• Books sold by Will. Cooper, at the Pelican in Little-Britain.