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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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Title: 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.
Author: Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
Publication: London :: Printed by Richard Coats, for Tho: Williams, at the signe of the Bible in Little-Britain,; 1651.
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Subject terms: Distillation -- Early works to 1800.; Gold -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "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.

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The Contents of the second Part. (Book 2)

THe structure of the second furnace 51
The way or the manner to perform the distillation 52
How to make the acid oyle & the vola∣tile▪ spirit of vitriol 55
Of Vitriol ibid.
The use and dose of the narcotick sul∣phur of vitriol 57
Of the use and vertue of the volatil spirit of vitriol 58
Of the vertue and oyle of the corrosive oyle of vitriol 59
How to make the vitriol of Mars and Venus ibid.
The way to make a faire blue vitriol out of Luna, that is silver 60
Of the sweet oyle of vitriol 67
The preparation of the sweet oyle of vi∣triol 70
The use and the dose of the sweet oyle of vitriol 72
Of the sulphurous volatile and acid spirit of common salt and of Al∣lome 74
The manner of preparing 74
Of the sulphurious volatile spirit of minerals & of their preparation 75
The preparation of the volatile spirit of metals 75
The preparation of the volatile spirit of minerals ibid.
Another way ibid
The spirit of Zinck 76
The volatile spirit of the dross of Re∣gulus Martis ibid.
How to make a white acid and red vo∣latile spirit out of salt nitre ibid.
Of the use of the red volatile spirit 77
The use of the white acid spirit of salt nitre ibid
Aqua Regis 78
The preparation of Aurum Fulmi∣nans ibid.
The use of Aurum Fulminans 83
The use of the tincture of gold 85
Of the flowers of silver and of its me∣dicine 86
Of the use of the crystals of silver 87
How to sublime the crystals of silver into flowers, and then to make a good medicine of the flowers 88
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How to make a green oyle out of silver 89
The use of the green oyle in Alchymie and for Mechanical uses 90
A medicine out of copper externally to be used 91
A medicine out of iron or steel 92
Of tin or lead ibid.
The use of the crystals of lead and tin ibid.
Of Mercury 93
Of Aqua fortis 96
Of the sulphurised spirit of salt nitre 98
Of the Clissus. ibid.
Of the tartarised spirit of nitre 99
Of the tartarised spirit of Antimony 100
Of stone coales 101
Of the sulphurious spirit of salt nitre or Aqua fortis 101
Of the nitrous spirit of Arsenick 102
To make a spirit of sulphurous crude tartar and salt nitre ibid.
To make a spirit out of salt of tartar, sulphur and salt nitre ibid.
How to make a spirit of saw dust, sul∣phur and salt nitre 103
To make metallical spirits and flores by the help of salt nitre and linnen cloth 104
Of gunpowder ibid.
How to make a spirit of gunpowder 107
Of the use of the medicine or tincture made of gunpowder 109
To make spirits and flowers of nitre and coales 110
To make flowers and spirits of flints, crystal, or sand, by adding of coales and spirit of salt nitre to them 110
To make a spirit and oyle out of talck and salt nitre 111
To make a spirit, flowers and an oyl out of tin 112
To make a spirit, flowers and a liquor out of Zinck ibid.
To make a spirit flowers, and a oyle of lapis calaminaris 113
To make spirit of salt nitre, sulphur and common salt 114
To make a spirit, flowers and oyl out of salt nitre and Regulus Martis 114
To distil Butyrum out of Antimony, salt and vitriol, like unto that which is made out of Antimony and Mercury sublimate 118
To distil butyrum of Arsenick and orpiment ibid.
To make a rare spirit of vitriol 119
To make a subtle spirit and pleasant oyle of Zinck 120
To distil a spirit and oyle out of lead 121
To distil a subtle spirit and oyle out of crude tartar 122
The preparation and use of the spirit of tartar 123
How to make pretious spirits and oyles out of tartar joyned with some mi∣nerals and metals 126
The use of the metallised spirit and tartar ibid.
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The other way to make a metallised spirit of tartar 130
To distil the spirit and oyle of lead and tin
How to make a tartarised spirit and oyl out of iron & steel or copper 133
How to make a tartarised spirit of Mercury 137
How to make a tartarised spirit of gold and silver ibid.
To make a tartarised spirit of anti∣mony 139
How to make good spirits and oyles out of pearls, corals, and crabs eyes, and other light soluble stones of beasts and fishes 146
To distil a spirit out of salt of tartar, and crude tartar 147
How to get a powerful spirit out of the salt of tartar by the help of sand or peble stones ibid.
How to extract a blood red tincture with spirit of wine out of peble stones 150
The use of the tincture of pebles or flints in physick 151
How by the help of this liquor out of gold its red colour may be extracted so that it remaines white 153
Another way to extract a tincture out of gold by the help of the liquor of sand or pebles 159
What further may be done with the liquor of pebles 160
How by the help of this liquor to make trees to grow out of metals, with their colours ibid.
Of the spirit of urine and of the vo la∣tile spirit of salt Armoniack 162
The process or manner of making it is this 163
Of the use or vertue of the spirit of salt Armoniack 166
To distil a blood red oyle of vitriol by the help of the spirit of urine 167
The tincture of vegetables 168
Vitriol of copper ibid.
The tincture of crude tartar ibid.
To make the oyles or liquors of salts ibid.
To precipitate all metals with it ibid.
The oyle and vitriol of silver 169
To extract a red oyle ont of Antimony or common sulphur ibid.
How to ripen Antimony and common sulphur, so that several sorts of such like sm••ls, as vegetables have arise from thence 171
Of the spirit and oyle of harts-home 171
To make the spirit of mans haire an excellent medicine 172
Of the oyle of Ambar 173
Of the oyle of soot 174
How to make a good oyle out of soot without distilling ibid.
Of the spirit and oyle of honey ibid.
Of the oyle and spirit of sugar 175
To distil an excellent spirit and blood red tincture of coals and sugar 176
Of the spirit of Must or new wine ibid.
Of oyle olive 177
The use of the blessed oyle 179
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Of the oyle of wax ibid.
A good spirit for the stone ibid.
Of the spirit or acid oyle of sulphur 180
To the Courteous Reader 181

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