A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth. / By John Rudolph Glauber. Set forth in English, by J.F. D.M.
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A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth. / By John Rudolph Glauber. Set forth in English, by J.F. D.M.
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Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
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London :: Printed by Richard Coats, for Tho: Williams, at the signe of the Bible in Little-Britain,
1651.
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Distillation -- Early works to 1800.
Gold -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
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"A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth. / By John Rudolph Glauber. Set forth in English, by J.F. D.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86029.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
What further may be done with the liquor of pebles.
MAny more profitable things, as well in Alchymie, as in medicine may be compassed by the oyle of sand: as for example, to make faire painting colours out of metals, which abide in all Elements: Also to frame all sort of transparent hard stones out of crystal, which in beauty are like unto the natural, yea fairer sometimes: also how to make many fair Amauses and the like profitable arts: but they belonging not to this second part, shall be reserved for the fourth, where all such shall be taught very punctually with all the circumstan∣ces thereunto relating.
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