Fleta minor the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals : in two parts : the first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern, chief prover, or assay-master general of the empire of Germany, in V. books, orinally written by him in the Teutonick language and now translated into English ; the second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses, by Sir John Pettus ... ; illustrated with 44 sculptures.
About this Item
- Title
- Fleta minor the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals : in two parts : the first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern, chief prover, or assay-master general of the empire of Germany, in V. books, orinally written by him in the Teutonick language and now translated into English ; the second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses, by Sir John Pettus ... ; illustrated with 44 sculptures.
- Author
- Ercker, Lazarus, d. 1594.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for the author, by Thomas Dawks ...,
- 1683.
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Subject terms
- Assaying -- Early works to 1800.
- Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800.
- Cite this Item
-
"Fleta minor the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals : in two parts : the first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern, chief prover, or assay-master general of the empire of Germany, in V. books, orinally written by him in the Teutonick language and now translated into English ; the second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses, by Sir John Pettus ... ; illustrated with 44 sculptures." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54597.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
Pages
Page 252
before, that the Lead may go and very gently pass away under the before laid wood: Now, when such lead hath copper in it, if only two pound in a Centner, so the cop∣per will remain on the hearth, and what you find is but leady copper, but if you will have it very clean, then blow it with a Bellows upon a hearth, till it becomes ready, but in the little proof, 'tis seen upon the Coppel, for when the Lead which hath much, begins to go, then touch the Copper flowers, and the coppels will become black after 'tis gone off.
Notes
-
A flat Hearth.