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
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.Glauber, Johann Rudolf
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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.
Glauber, Johann Rudolf
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Chemistry -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800
Now, because this Furnace doth not serve for every matter, because
the materials to be distilled are cast upon burning Coals, which are
things Combustible, I have determined in the second part to give
another, _viz._ a lesser, unlike to this, yet convenient to distil all
combustible things that are endued with volatile spirits, as Tartar,
Harts-horn, Amber, Sal Armoniack, Urine, _&c._ There are, by the help
hereof, made most subtile, volatile, sulphureous spirits of Salts, and
Minerals, as of common Salt, Vitriol, Allom, Nitre, Antimony, and of
all other Minerals and Metals, which otherwise, without this Furnace,
could not have been made, with which spirits, wonderful things are
performed in Medicine and Alchymy, as in the Second Part shall be
demonstrated more largely.
Now I will shew you a way to make other Receivers belonging to the
first Furnace, and indeed, such as are more fit for some Operations,
as the former were more fit for others: wherefore let him that will
operate, chuse these, or the other, as he pleaseth.
As therefore the former being erected upwards by a wall, or ladder,
by which means the spirit might ascend from one into another so long,
until being refrigerated and condensed might again drop downward into
the dish that is annexed thereto: so these are a contrary way set and
placed collateral in a vessel filled with cold Water to condense the
spirits, by which means you need not so many receivers; also they must
not be fashioned like the former, as to be open above, and below, but
only above like pots that serve for boyling: but this you must observe,
that by how much the deeper and larger they are, by so much the better
they are.
Also you must joyn them together by the help of earthen pipes, being
so distinct, that the spirits may be kept back, being yet hot (and
not refrigerated) from passing out of one into the other, but being
forced through the middle of the separation of the pipes, may go to
the bottom of every receiver, and thence arise by another pipe into
another receiver that hath a double cover like the former, where again
descending to the cold bottom, remain refrigerated and condensed.
Now three or four of these are enough (whereas of other, thirteen or
fifteen are required) a regard being had of their Greatness.
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