Fleta minor the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals : in two parts : the first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern, chief prover, or assay-master general of the empire of Germany, in V. books, orinally written by him in the Teutonick language and now translated into English ; the second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses, by Sir John Pettus ... ; illustrated with 44 sculptures.

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Fleta minor the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals : in two parts : the first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern, chief prover, or assay-master general of the empire of Germany, in V. books, orinally written by him in the Teutonick language and now translated into English ; the second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses, by Sir John Pettus ... ; illustrated with 44 sculptures.

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Ercker, Lazarus, d. 1594.

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London :: Printed for the author, by Thomas Dawks ...,

1683.

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Assaying -- Early works to 1800.

Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• bookplate
• TO THE Kings most Excellent MAJESTY.
• To the Right Honourable, George Marquess, Earl, Vis∣count Hallifax, and Baron of Eland, Lord Privy Seal, and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Coun∣cel; and Governour of the Society of the Mines Royal, and Battery Works.
• To the Noble and Honoured Subscribers and Contributers to this BOOK.
• To my Worthy Friend, Richard Manlove, Esq Warden of the Fleet.
• To the Courteous READER.
• THE PREFACE OF Lazarus Erckern, To his five following BOOKS.
• The first PART, Consisting of V. BOOKS.
• table of sculptures
• errata
• Lazarus Erskerus aliàs Erckern.
  • BOOK I.
    • CHAP. I. Of Silver Oars.
    • CHAP. II. How Silver Oars are distinctly known.
    • CHAP. III. How the Assay-Ovens to prove Silver and other Metals are to be prepared.
    • CHAP. IV. How Muffles, Bottom-plates, Tests, and other small Potters-Work (necessary for Assayers) are to be made.
    • CHAP. V. Of Copels, and how they may be made firm and good.
    • CHAP. VI. How good Copels may be made, wherein the Tryals will not leap nor sparkle.
    • CHAP. VII. How good Clar is to be made.
    • CHAP. VIII. How Glass of Lead, or Lead-Glass is to be made.
    • CHAP. IX. Of the Weights which belong to the proving of Silver-Oars.
    • CHAP. X. How all Silver-Oars are to be tryed.
    • CHAP. XI. How poor Oars of Silver are to be Assayed.
    • CHAP. XII. To try Muddy-vvater springs of Silver.
    • CHAP. XIII. How a true Lead-Grain which is usually drawn off in the Proof, is to be made.
    • CHAP. XIV. How a Slackstone or Copper-stone is to be made, and to be tryed for Silver, and what the Slackstone is.
    • CHAP. XV. To try Hard Work and Copper-Laech upon Silver.
    • CHAP. XVI. To Assay melted Speiz, and what it is.
    • CHAP. XVII. How Black Copper is to be melted and cast into Ingots.
    • CHAP. XVIII. To try Bell-metal for Silver.
    • CHAP. XIX. How old Silver-plate or Coyn is to be made into Grains.
    • CHAP. XX. To granulate out of a Kiln.
    • CHAP. XXI. How the grain'd or granulated Silver is to be assayed for fine Silver.
    • CHAP. XXII. How coin'd Money in great or small Sorts may be Assayed.
    • CHAP. XXIII. How Burnt silver Pieces and Plates are to be cut out.
    • CHAP. XXIV. How Silver Touch-Needes are to be made.
    • CHAP. XXV. How Mettals that are melted must be cut out, and assayed for Silver.
    • CHAP. XXVI. How Tin is to be assayed for Silver.
    • CHAP. XXVII. How to separate Iron and Steel from Silver.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. How Black or white Silver is to be burnt clean, and how the Tests for it are to be made right.
    • CHAP. XXIX. How to burn Silver under the Muffle.
    • CHAP. XXX. How Copper is to be Assayed for fine Silver.
    • CHAP. XXXI. How Silver is to be separated from Tin.
    • CHAP. XXXII. How to drive out all sorts of Silver, that it may be Deft, smooth and fine.
    • CHAP. XXXIII. How to boyl Copper from the pagment or old Silver in Coined Money, or from thin beaten plates of Silver.
    • CHAP. XXXIV. How good proof Ballances are to be made and fitted.
    • CHAP. XXXV. Of Filing or Joyning the proof Ballance or Scales.
    • CHAP. XXXVI. How Proof-Weights are to be made and divided, and first of the Grains Pence and Carrat weights.
    • CHAP. XXXVII. For dividing the Weight of the Centner.
  • OF Golden OARS. BOOK II.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II. What Proofs and Washings the Gold-washers use in Gold-works.
    • CHAP. III. Of Gold Slicks▪
    • CHAP. IV. How Gold-Slicks with Gold from digg'd Oar are to be prepared.
    • CHAP. V. How Clean Gold-slicks are to be made to pro∣fit without Quicksilver.
    • CHAP. VI. Of Fluss to boyl up the Oars.
    • CHAP. VII. How Gold may be separated very clean from the Quicksilver.
    • CHAP. VIII. How Gold-Oars are to be proved for Gold.
    • CHAP. IX. How Gold in Lumps, Plates, Ingots or coyned Gold is to be assayed, and first of Touch-Needles.
    • CHAP. X. How the white Touch Needles are to be made.
    • CHAP. XI. How Touch-Needles are to be made and used for Crown-Gold.
    • CHAP. XII. The Division of the Touch-Needles, when the Me∣tal is half white, and half red.
    • CHAP. XIII. How Touch-needles are to be made for Rhenish Gold, in which there is two parts white, and one part red.
    • CHAP. XIV. How the Touch Needles are to be used.
    • CHAP. XV. How the Gold is to be proved by Aqua fortis.
    • CHAP. XVI. How to prove the Aqua fort▪ and how much Gold it doth leave in the Proof.
    • CHAP. XVII. How Silver is to be proved for Gold.
    • CHAP. XVIII. To prove Goldish-Silver by the Water-weight.
    • CHAP. XIX. To find without such water-Proof, whether Silver con∣tains Gold.
    • CHAP. XX. How to separate Gold and Silver, and how to burn or distil Aqua fort. and prepare Instruments and Clay for the Work.
    • CHAP. XXI. How to make Ovens to Distill Aqua Fort.
    • CHAP. XXII. How the Ingredients are to be prepared for distilling of the Aqua fort.
    • CHAP. XXIII. How Aqua fortis is to be distilled.
    • CHAP. XXIV. How Aqua fortis is to be distilled in an Iron Jug or Pot.
    • CHAP. XXV. How to distil Aqua fort. in 4, or 5 Hours.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Another good way to distil Aqua fort.
    • CHAP. XXVII. How to make an Excellent strong Aqua fort.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. How to distil an Aqua fortis, called Aqua Regis, which dissolveth Gold, Copper, Iron, Lead and Tin; also Mercury sublimate and Arsnick.
    • CHAP. XXIX. To distil Aqua fort. in Retorts with other Ad∣vantages.
    • CHAP. XXX. How Aqua fort. is to be separated and cleansed from its Feces.
    • CHAP. XXXI. How weak Aqua fort is to be made stronger.
    • CHAP. XXXII. How Gold and Silver in the Aqua fort. is to be separated.
    • CHAP. XXXIII. When the Gold is abstracted, how the Silver is to be brought again, out of Aqua fort.
    • CHAP. XXXIV. How Aqua fortis drawn from Silver may be used again.
    • CHAP. XXXV. How to separate Gold and Silver by Fusion.
    • CHAP. XXXVI. How the Scoria's or dross is to be made to Profit.
    • CHAP. XXXVII. How to make a Fluss for Precipitation.
    • CHAP. XXXVIII. How to make good and sound Crucibles for separating the Fluss.
    • CHAP. XXXIX. Of Cementing, and what it is.
    • CHAP. XL. How the cover'd Oven for Cement is to be made.
    • CHAP. XLI. How Rhenish Gold is to be Cemented.
    • CHAP. XLII. Another Cement upon light or mean Gold.
    • CHAP. XLIII. A good Common Cement for all Golds▪
    • CHAP. XLIV. More Instructions for Cementing.
    • CHAP. XLV. How to graduate Gold.
    • CHAP. XLVI. How to make brickle Gold, deft.
    • CHAP. XLVII. Another way to make Gold, Deft.
    • CHAP. XLVIII. How to make Gold Deft upon the Copel.
    • CHAP. XLIX. How to cast Gold through Antimony.
    • CHAP. L. How the Blick or light Gold, containing much Silver, is to be separated.
    • CHAP. LI. How to separate the used Antimony▪
    • CHAP. LII. How Gold may be made fine and clean through Aqua Regis.
  • OF Copper OARS.BOOK III.
    • CHAP. I. How to know Copper Oars.
    • CHAP. II. How to make Crucibles and Ovens to prove Copper.
    • CHAP. III. How to make a Fluss to prove Copper Oars.
    • CHAP. IV. How soft flowing Copper Oars are to be proved.
    • CHAP. V. How hard flowing Copper Oars are to be proved.
    • CHAP. VI. How to prove light Coppers.
    • CHAP. VII. How light Copper Oars which are mixt and insperged with flint, may be brought to profit.
    • CHAP. VIII. How to prove Copper Oar from Copper-stone.
    • CHAP. IX. How to prove Copper Oar another way.
    • CHAP. X. How to prove melted Copper-stone.
    • CHAP. XI. To prove Flinty Copper by Sulphur.
    • CHAP. XII. How to prove Black Coppers by defty or smooth Coppers.
    • CHAP. XIII. How to prove whether Lead be very Copperish.
    • CHAP. XIV. Twelve necessary Instructions for an Assayer to follow.
    • CHAP. XV. Twelve Directions how to separate Silver from Copper in the great Work.
    • CHAP. XVI. Thirteen additional Instructions about good Copper.
    • CHAP. XVII. Six additional Instructions about proving of fresh Oar, called hard Lead.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Three Additions concerning Thornels, or parts of Oars not fully melted.
    • CHAP. XIX. Six more Instructions concerning good and deft Coppers.
    • CHAP. XX. Seven more additional Instructions about good Copper.
    • CHAP. XXI. Nine Rules, shewing how the Regulus of poor black Copper-Oar is to be assayed, after the Hungarian Method.
    • CHAP. XXII. Seven more Instructions for the Hungarian way of sepa∣rating, and how the first work or Instrick is to be performed.
    • CHAP. XXIII. How Litarge Pieces are to be made.
    • CHAP. XXIV. How Silver is to be separated from spizy and unclean black Coppers.
    • CHAP. XXV. Instructions for driving Lead and Copper from Silver.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Of driving the Keinstocks and Thornels.
    • CHAP. XXVII. A singular way of melting in the Assaying work.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. How Copper is to be made Brass.
  • OF Lead OARS, TIN, ANTIMONY, QUICKSILVER, IRON, STEEL, and the LOADSTONE. BOOK IV.
    • CHAP. I. Of Lead Oars.
    • CHAP. II. How to prove defty-lead Oars for Lead.
    • CHAP. III. How to prove an undefty, Lead-Oar for Lead.
    • CHAP. IV. How to prove poor separable Oar by boyling it, and trying it by smelting.
    • CHAP. V. How to try common Lead-Oars for Lead, in a little Oven.
    • CHAP. VI. How the inseparable and light Lead Oars are to be assay∣ed in a little Oven.
    • CHAP. VII. How to make a Lead-Proof on a Table or in a Stove.
    • CHAP. VIII. How to make Lead Oars (though they will not separate in the water) to be profitable.
    • CHAP. IX. Of melting Oars with Moll or Turf.
    • CHAP. X. How to prove Spelter or Wizmet Oar, which some call Bizmuth.
    • CHAP. XI. Of Tin.
    • CHAP. XII. How to prove Tin-stone for Tin.
    • CHAP. XIII. How to try Tin-stone in the little Ovens.
    • CHAP. XIV. Of beating and preparing the Zwitter.
    • CHAP. XV. An Instruction for Tin-stone Work.
    • CHAP. XVI. To prove Tin Additions.
    • CHAP. XVII. How to prove Antimony.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Of Quick-silver.
    • CHAP. XIX. How to prove Quick-silver-Oar for Quick-silver.
    • CHAP. XX. Of Iron and Steel-stone, how to know and prove them.
    • CHAP. XXI. How to prove whether the Iron-stone be rich in Iron.
    • CHAP. XXII. Of Magnets.
  • OF SALT-PETRE, VITRIOL, ALLUM and Salt Springs. BOOK V.
    • CHAP. I. Of Salt-Petre.
    • CHAP. II. Of what Earth Salt-Petre is best to be made.
    • CHAP. III. How Salt-petre is to be proved.
    • CHAP. IV. How the Lees or Suds shall be made out of the above∣mentioned Earths.
    • CHAP. V. How to Boyl Lees or Suds.
    • CHAP. VI. How to prepare Lees for the crude and raw Salt-Petre.
    • CHAP. VII. How to purify and cleanse the raw Salt-Petre.
    • CHAP. VIII. How to cleanse the great Graind and black Salt-Petre Salt.
    • CHAP. IX. How to make the raw Lees richer before the boyling▪
    • CHAP. X. How Flints are to be proved for Vitriol, and Allum-Oar for Allum.
• title page
• index
• errata
• ESSAYS EXPLAINING Metallick WORDS: Alphabetically disposed, as a DICTIONARY or INDEX to the whole. Note, T. signifies the Teutonical or Upper German Language. L. The Latine. A. The Anglican or English: The rest are written at large, being but seldom used.
  • AL A AL
  • BA B BA
  • CA C CA
  • DE D DI
  • EA E EA
  • FEFFI
  • GA G GA
  • HA H HA
  • IN I IR
  • KE K KE
  • LA L LA
  • MA M MA
  • NE N NE
  • OA O OA
  • PA P PA
  • QU Q QU
  • RA R RA
  • SA S SA
  • TA T TI
  • VA V VI
  • WA W WA
  • XA X XE
  • YA Y YE
  • ZU Z ZU