Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
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Vermilion in Stone.
Cinaber, or Vermilion is made the more beautiful by mixing with it when it is ground some Water of Gum Ammoniack, with a lit∣tle Saffron, and it does not grow black.
