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 November 10, 2024.

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Of Gold and Silver.

GOld and silver can hardly be brought into flowers, because many are of opinion, that nothing comes from them in the fire, especially from Gold, although it should be left there for ever: which although it be true, viz. that nothing comes from gold in the fire, although it should remaine there a long time, and from silver but a little, except it have copper or any other metal mixed, which yet vapours a∣way but by little and little.

Which I say although it be so▪ yet they being broken and subtilized and scattered upon coales, and so dispersed, may by the force of the fire and help of the aire be sublimed, and re∣duced into flowers.

Now seeing the aforesaid metals are dear, and of a great

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price, and the furnace with its recipients large, I would not that any one should cast them in, especially gold, because he cannot recover them all; but I shall to those that desire to make these flowers shew another way in the second part, whereby they may make them without the loss of the metal; to which I referr the reader. For this furnace serves for the subliming of metals, and minerals, which are not so preti∣ous, the loosing of part whereof is not so much regarded▪ And thus much is said to shew that gold, and silver, although fixed, may be sublimed. Now other metals may more easily be sublimed, yet one more easily then another, neither need they any other preparation but beating small, before they be cast into the fire.

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