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.
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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.
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Ercker, Lazarus, d. 1594.
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London :: Printed for the author, by Thomas Dawks ...,
1683.
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Assaying -- Early works to 1800.
Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800.
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"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.
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[ XIX] CHAP. XVIII. Three Additions concerning Thornels, or parts of Oars not fully melted.
[Section. 1] TAKE two Centners and an half of Thornells, that is half separated Oars, and half roasted, and a centner and a quarter of hard Lead: and a quarter of a centner of Litarge, the Lead must contain 3 and a half: 4 loths, 4 and a half, till to 5 loths.
Item, to a Centner of Littarge is counted 3 quarters of Lead; and a Centner of Littarge is counted at 135 pounds; and also upon 145 pounds of hard Lead, one centner of soft Lead, although to some separating Works are taken 130 pound of Litarge in stead of a centner of Lead, and 140 pound, hard Lead, instead of soft lead.
Also there goes commonly off from 10 centners one centner and a half of Lead; thus you may know how to substract from the additions together with the Loths, which will be found in the centner.
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