Four books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld concerning the secrets of the adepts, or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine : a practical work, with very great study collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy : reconciled together by comparing them one with another, otherwise disagreeing, and in the newest method so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit or sophistical preparations of animals, vegetables and minerals, whether for medicines or metals, from true, and so avoid vagabound imposters, and imaginary processes, together with the ruine of estates.
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Four books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld concerning the secrets of the adepts, or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine : a practical work, with very great study collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy : reconciled together by comparing them one with another, otherwise disagreeing, and in the newest method so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit or sophistical preparations of animals, vegetables and minerals, whether for medicines or metals, from true, and so avoid vagabound imposters, and imaginary processes, together with the ruine of estates.
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Weidenfeld, Johann Seger.
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London :: Printed by Will. Bonny, for Tho. Howkins ...,
1685.
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Alchemy.
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"Four books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld concerning the secrets of the adepts, or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine : a practical work, with very great study collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy : reconciled together by comparing them one with another, otherwise disagreeing, and in the newest method so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit or sophistical preparations of animals, vegetables and minerals, whether for medicines or metals, from true, and so avoid vagabound imposters, and imaginary processes, together with the ruine of estates." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65379.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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149. The Spirit of Mercury mixed with Vi∣triol and the Fiery Spirit of Wine of Basilius. Labore 3. Libri Revelat.
TAke off this Oyl (the first Matter of Metals made out of Venus and Mars, or Spirit of Universal Mercury de∣scribed in Numb. 132.) eight Ounces, of the Spirit of Wine rectified to the highest (the Menstruum described in Numb. 19.) five Ounces, distil by a Glass Retort, and that three times, always with New Spirit, so as that fifteen Ounces of the fiery Spirit of Wine may be joyned to the eight Ounces of Oyl.
Paracelsus made the following mix'd Menstruum for the Ar∣canum Lapidis or Antimony.
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