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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Contents

• title page
• 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.
• The PREFACE.
• A Register of the Chapters.
• METALLOGRAPHIA: OR, An HISTORY of METALS.
  • CHAP. I. Of the usefulness and excellency of the Knowledge of Minerals and Metals, and of the antiquity of the Melting, Refining, and accommodating of them to humane use, and the causes of the non-proficiency of Metallick skill, especially in his Majesties Dominions of Great Britain.
  • CHAP. II. Of those Authors that have treated of Metals and Minerals.
  • CHAP. III. Of the generation of Metals, and whether they grow, and have Vegetability, or not.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Causes assigned by the most approved Au∣thors for their generations, both efficient and material, and the manner thereof.
  • CHAP. V. Of the uncertainty of the division of Fossiles, their definitions, or descriptions, and number.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the signs and discovery of Mines and Ores, both in general and in particular.
  • CHAP. VII. Of those Minerals that are said to be of affinity to Metals, as those they call Cachimiae, Marchasites, Pyritae, or Fire-stones.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of the several sorts of Gold according to the mysti∣cal Authors; also of the primum ens of Gold, and of some other things of the like nature.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the sorts of common Gold, as they are produ∣ced by Nature, and in what manner they are severally found.
  • CHAP. X. Further of the Stones, Rocks, and Flints of Gold, and the striking passages wherein it is found: as also of the several sorts of it mentioned in Scripture, and elsewhere.
  • CHAP. XI. Of the descriptions of common Gold according to some Authors, and of the properties thereof: as also of some wayes of beating, sifting, and wash∣ing the Ore thereof.
  • CHAP. XII. What may be thought of common Gold; whether it be an ingredient into the Philosophers Tincture, or not? What may be said of Aurum pota∣bile, or the Tincture of Gold; and what of the white body when the Tincture is taken from it; and something of the Alcahest.
  • CHAP. XIII. Of the description of Silver, and the several ways that the Ore of it is gotten; and of its Mines, conditions, and striking passages.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of Silver found pure by Nature, that needs no refining by Fire. And of those sorts that must be purified, their Colours, Mixture, and seve∣ral Coats wherein they lie.
  • CHAP. XV. How they refine Silver Ore at the Indies, and of some other such things.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of the descriptions of Copper, of its Ore, Stone, Operation, and striking Passages.
  • CHAP. XVII. Of some signs where Copper Ore may be found, as also of its several sorts, and the divers pre∣parations it undergoes ere it be pure.
  • CHAP. XVIII. Of native and factitious Orichalcum, of Corinthian Copper or Brass, and of some other Composi∣tions that Copper undergoes with other Metals or Minerals, and of the Medicines prepared forth of it.
  • CHAP. XIX. Of the descriptions of Iron, its Ore, or Mine, Operation, Stocks, Flotes, and Passages.
  • CHAP. XX. Of the several sorts of Iron-stone, or Ore, and of Medicines prepared forth of this Metal.
  • CHAP. XXI. Of the description of Lead, its Ores, Mine, Con∣dition, and striking passages.
  • CHAP. XXII. Of the several sorts of Lead Ore, their Coats and Matrixes, and of Medicines prepared forth of this Metal, and of such things.
  • CHAP. XXIII. Of the description of Tin, of its Ores, Operation, Stocks, Floats, Fallings, and striking Passages, and the like.
  • CHAP. XXIV. Of the several sorts of Mercuries according to the Mystical Philosophers, or Adeptists.
  • CHAP. XXV. Of the Description of Quicksilver, of Cinnober, ad its several Ores, and Passages, and how it is gotten, and refined in divers places, and the like.
  • CHAP. XXVI. Of several sorts of Medicaments prepared forth of common Mercury, both by the way of vul∣gar Chymistry, as also by the mystical way. And of the Praecipiolum of Paracelsus and Hel∣mont.
  • CHAP. XXVII. Of Antimony or Stibium. Of Wismuth, Bis∣muth, or Plumbum Cinereum, or Tinglass. Of Zinetum, Zinck or Spelter. Of Cobaltum. And of their Qualities, Ores and Medicaments, prepared forth of some of them, and of native Electrum.
  • CHAP. XXVIII. Something more of Galena, Lapis Plumbarius, native Cadmia, &c. As also of Chrysocolla, or native Borax, Caeruleum, native Blue, Ae∣rugo, native Green, Talk, Magnes, the Load-stone, Haematites, the Blood-stone, Schistus; The Lazul-stone, and of Metallary stones, and the like.
  • CHAP. XXIX. Of the Transmutation of Metals.
• Books Printed for, and Sold by Walter Kettilby, at the Bi∣shops-Head in Duck-Lane.