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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CHAP. XX. [ XXI] Of Iron and Steel-stone, how to know and prove them.
IRON-STONE is brown, and its co∣lour is so that commonly it looks like roasted Iron; but the best and rich∣est Iron-stone its colour is blewish, like to a dug Iron, and some of these Iron-stones are Magnetish, and draw the Iron apparently, which proceeds from their hidden heat, as shall hereafter be discoursed of.
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