Metallographia, or, A history of metals wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging ... : as also, the handling and shewing of their vegetability ... : gathered forth of the most approved authors that have written in Greek, Latine, or High-Dutch ... / by John Webster ...
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- Metallographia, or, A history of metals wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging ... : as also, the handling and shewing of their vegetability ... : gathered forth of the most approved authors that have written in Greek, Latine, or High-Dutch ... / by John Webster ...
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- Webster, John, 1610-1682.
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- London :: Printed for A.C. for Walter Kettilby ...,
- MDCLXXI [1671]
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- Metals -- Early works to 1800.
- Alchemy.
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"Metallographia, or, A history of metals wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging ... : as also, the handling and shewing of their vegetability ... : gathered forth of the most approved authors that have written in Greek, Latine, or High-Dutch ... / by John Webster ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65370.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.
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To his Highness PRINCE RUPERT, Count Palatine of the Rhyne, DUKE of BAVRIA And CUMBERLAND, EARL of HOLDERNESS, &c. Constable of the Royal Castle and Honor OF WINDSOR, And KNIGHT of the Noble Order OF THE GARTER.
May it please your Highness,
I Have not presumed to present this mean and slender Colle∣ction of Minerals unto your Highness view, forth of confidence
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of its own worth, though there may be some things in it not unfit for the knowledge of so High and Noble a Person: But rather in respect of the transcendent worth of the Sub∣ject it treateth of, being the most abstruse and most excellent part of all Natural Philosophy; being here∣unto especially moved by two rea∣sons. One is, That your Highness being a Member of the Royal So∣ciety (one of the happy fruits of His Majesties blessed and mira∣culous Restauration, and that which will speak him glorious to all suc∣ceeding Generations, beyond all his Royal Progenitors) stands there∣by in some measure obliged to be an encourager, and cherisher of all attempts (though of the lowest and meanest persons) that tend to
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the advancement of Experimental Philosophy. This (may it please your Highness) did heighten my hopes, that I might receive the same candor (in some measure) that your Highness seemeth to have afforded to all. Another is the propension, and inclination that (as I am informed) your Highness bears in a particular man∣ner to this worthy and commen∣dable Science of Minerals and Me∣tals. The onely thing (besides the craving pardon for my bold∣ness) is, that I humbly beg of your Highness, that if your spare hours will allow, you may sometimes make a perusal of it, and if your Highness be pleased to put to your helping hand, that this kind of knowledge may be
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more heedfully sought into, and promoted, and that others of far greater abilities, may communi∣cate some part of their knowledge, it is all that is desired by
Your Highness's most humble and devoted Servant, Io. Webster.