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The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : $b containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth. — John Shaqi

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The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : $b containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth.

Name: The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : $b containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth.
Author: Glauber, Johann Rudolf

Glauber, Johann Rudolf

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Chemistry -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800

=FIG. II.= A. _The Ash-hole, with the wideness of the Furnace._ B.
    _The middle hole, by which the Coals and Matter to be distilled,
    are cast in._ C. _A Stopper of Stone, which is to stop the said
    hole after casting in the matter._ D. _The upper hole with a
    certain false bottom, which is to be filled with Sand._ E. _The
    Cover of the upper hole, which is put on after the putting in
    the Coals and Materials._ F. _A Pipe going out of the Receiver,
    and joyned to the first Pot._ G. _The first Receiver._ H. _The
    second._ I. _The third._ K. _A Stool on which the first Receiver
    stands, having a hole in the middle, through which the Neck of
    the first Pot, to which a Dish is annexed, passeth._ L. _The
    Dish through the Pipe whereof the refrigerated Spirits distill._
    M. _A Receiver into which the Spirits collected in the Dish do
    flow._ N. _A Screw to be raised higher at pleasure for the better
    joyning the Receiver to the Pipe, and it goeth through a Stool._
    O. _The place of the Pipe for the Distilling of Spirit of Vitriol
    and Allom._ P. _A Grate consisting of two strong cross Iron
    Barrs, fastned in the Furnace, and four or five more less, that
    are moveable, for the better cleansing of the Furnace._

  =FIG. III.= G. _The first crooked Pipe fitted to the Pipe of the
    Furnace._ F. _The Pipe of the Furnace._ H. _A Receiver fitted
    to that Pipe, and set in a Tub of water, for accellerating the
    Operations: which Receiver hath a Cover with two holes, through
    the first whereof goeth a single crooked Pipe, and through the
    other two crooked Pipes, whereof one goeth into the Receiver,
    as did the single, and the other out of the Receiver H, into
    H. H._ I. _The Tub of Water._ M. _A third Pipe. By this way
    Flowers are sublimed, and Spirits distilled speedily, and in
    great quantity._

[Illustration: The Second Furnace.]




                                  THE
                              FIRST PART
                                  OF
                        Philosophical Furnaces.


               _Of the Structure of the First Furnace._

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