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Author: Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
Title: A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth. / By John Rudolph Glauber. Set forth in English, by J.F. D.M.
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Print source: A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth. / By John Rudolph Glauber. Set forth in English, by J.F. D.M.
Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670., French, John, 1616-1657.
London: Printed by Richard Coats, for Tho: Williams, at the signe of the Bible in Little-Britain, 1651.
Alternate titles: Furni novi philosophici. English.
Subject terms:
Distillation -- Early works to 1800.
Gold -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
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To his Honored Friend, JOHN JENISON in the BISHOPRICK of DƲRHAM ESQVIRE.
to the reader
A Preface to the Courteous Reader.
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THE FIRST PART OF PHILOSOPHICAL FURNACES.
Of the structure of the first Furnace.
Of the Receivers.
Of Subliming vessels.
The manner of distilling.
How the Spirit of Salt is to be distilled.
Of the use of the spirit of Salt.
A distillation of vegetable oyles, whereby a greater quantity is acqui∣red, then by that common way, by a gourd still.
The cleer oyle of Mastick, and frankincense.
The Quintessence of all vegetables.
The Quintessence of all Metals, and Minerals.
A sweet, and red oyle of metals and minerals.
The oyle, or liquor of Gold.
Oyle of Mars.
Oyle of Venus.
Oyle of Jupiter and Saturne.
Oyle of Mercury.
Oyle of Antimony.
The flowers of Antimony white and vomitive.
The flowers of Antimony, diaphoretical.
Of the external use of the Corrosive oyle of Antimony.
The Oyle of Arsenic and Auripigmentum.
Oyle of Lapis Calaminaris.
The use of the oyle of Lapis Calaminaris.
Of the extrinsecal use of the spirit of salt in the kitchen.
How an acid spirit, or vinegar may be distilled out of all vegetables, as hearbs, woods, roots, seeds, &c.
The spirit of paper and linen cloth.
The spirit of Silk.
The spirit of mans haire, and of other animals, as also of horns.
The spirit of vinegar, honey, and sugar.
How spirits may be made out of the salt of tartar, vitriolated tartar, the spirit of salt tartarizated, and of other such like fixed salts.
And so is Lac Virginis, and the Philosophical Sanguis Draconis made.
The spirits, flowers, and salts of Minerals and stones.
How minerals, and metals may be reduced into flowers, and of their vertues.
Of Gold and Silver.
Flowers of Iron and Copper.
Flowers of Lead and Tin.
Of Mercury.
The flowers of Zinck.
The use.
Flowers of Antimony.
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THE SECOND PART OF PHILOSOPHICAL FURNACES.
The structure of the second Furnace.
The way or the manner to perform the destillation.
How to make the Acid oyle and the volatile spirit of Vitriol.
Of Vitrioll.
The use and Dose of the Narcotick sulphur of Vitrioll.
Of the use and vertue of the Volatile spirit of Vitrioll.
Of the vertue and use of the corrosive oyle of Vitrioll.
How to make the Vitrioll of Mars and Venus.
The way to make a faire blew Vitrioll out of Luna (that is, silver.)
Of the sweet oyle of Vitriol.
The preparation of the sweet oyle of Vitriol.
The use and Dose of the sweet oyle of Vitriol.
Of the sulphureous volatile and Acide spirit of common Salt, and of Allome.
The manner of preparing.
Of the sulphureous volatile spirit of Minerals and Metals, and of their preparation.
The preparation of the volatile spirits of Metals.
The preparation of the volatile spirit of Minerals.
Another way.
The spirit of Zinck.
The volatile spirit of the Drosse of the Regulus Iron.
How to make a white acid, and a red volatile spirit out of salt nitre.
Of the use of the red volatile spirit.
The use of the white acid spirit of salt nitre.
Aqua Regis.
The preparation of Aurum fulminans or Aurum Tonitruans.
The use of Aurum fulminans.
The use of the Tincture of Gold.
Of the flores of silver and of its medicine.
Of the use of the crystals of silver.
How to subline the Crystals of silver into flores, and then to make a good Medicine of the flores.
How to make a green oyle out of silver.
The use of the green liquor in Alchymy, and for Mechanical ope∣rations.
Besides Physick or physical use.
A medicine out of copper externally to be used.
A medicine out of iron or steel.
Of Tin and Lead.
The use of the crystals of Lead and Tin.
Of Mercury.
Of Aqua fortis.
Of the sulphurized spirit of salt nitre.
Of the Clissus.
Of the Tartarifed spirit of nitre.
Of the Tartarised spirit of Antimony.
Of Stone-coles.
Of the Sulphreous spirit of salt nitre or Aqua fortis.
Of the Nitrous spirit of Arsenick.
To make aspirit of Sulphur, crude Tartar and Salt nitre.
To make a spirit out of Salt of Tartar, Sulphur, and Salt∣nitre.
How to make a spirit of saw dust, sulphur and salt nitre.
To make metallical spirits and flores by the help of salt-nitre and linnen cloth.
Of Gun-powder.
How to make a spirit of Gunpowder.
Of the use of the medicine or Tincture made of the Gunpowder.
To make spirits and flores of Nitre and Coales.
To make flores and spirits of flints, crystals or sand, by adding of coales and salt nitre to them.
To make a spirit and oyle out of Talck with salt nitre.
To make a spirit, flores, and an oyle out of Tin.
To make a spirit, flores and a liquor out of Zinck or speauter.
To make a spirit, flores and oyle of Lapis Calaminaris.
To make a spirit of salt nitre, sulphur and common salt.
To make a spirit, flores and oyle out of salt nitre and Regulus Martis.
To distil Butyrum out of Antimony, Salt and vitriol, like unto that, which is made out of Antimony and Mercury sublimate.
To distil Butyrum of Arsenick and Orpiment.
To make a rare spirit of vitriol.
To make a subtle spirit and pleasant oyle of Zinck.
To distil a spirit and oyle out of lead.
To distill a subtile spirit and oyle out of crude Tartar.
The preparation and the use of the spirit of Tartar.
How to make pretious spirits and oyles out of Tartar joyned with some minerals and metals.
The use of the metallized spirit and oyle of Tartar.
The other way to make a metallised spirit of Tartar.
To distil the spirit and oyle of Lead and Tin.
How to make a Tartarised spirit and oyle out of Iron or Steel and Copper.
How to make a Tartarised spirit of Mercuy.
How to make a Tartarised spirit of Gold and Silver.
To make a Tartarized spirit of Antimony.
How to make good spirits and oyles out of Pearles, Corals, Crabs-eyes, and other light soluble stones of beasts and fishes.
To distil a spirit out of salt of Tartar and crude Tartar.
How to get a powerful spirit out of the salt of Tartar, by the help of pure sand or peble-stones.
How to extract a blood-red Tincture with spirit of wine out of the liquor of peble-stones.
The use of the Tincture of pebles or flints in Physick.
How by the help of this liquor out of Gold its red colour may be extract∣ed so that it remains white.
Another way to extract a good Tincture out of gold by the help of the liquor of sand or pebles.
What further may be done with the liquor of pebles.
How by the help of this liquor to make trees to grow out of metals; with their colours.
Of the spirit of urine and of the volatile spirit of salt Armoniack.
The process or the manner of making it is this.
Of the use and vertue of the spirit of salt Armoniack.
To distil a blood red oyle of vitriol by the help of the spirit of urine.
The tincture of Vegetables.
Vitriol of copper.
The Tincture of crude Tartar.
To make the oyles or liquors of salts.
To precipitate all metals with it.
The oyle and vitriol of silver.
To extrast a red Tincture out of Antimony or common sulphur.
How to ripen Antimony and common sulphur, so that several sorts of such smels, as vegetables have, arise from thence.
Of the spirit and oyle of Hartshorn.
To make the spirit of mans haire an excellent medicine.
Of the oyle of Ambar.
Of the oyle of soot.
How to make a good oyle out of soot without distilling.
Of the spirit and oyle of haney.
Of the oyle and spirit of sugar.
To distil an excellent spirit and a blood red tincture of corals and sugar.
Of the spirit of Muste or new wine.
Of oyle Olive.
The use of the blessed oyle.
Of the oyle of Wax.
A Spirit good for the Stone.
Of the spirit or acid oyle of Sulphur.
To the courteous Reader.
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A Preface of the Copper Instrument and Furnace.
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THE THIRD PART OF PHILOSOPHICAL FURNACES.
Of Wooden Instruments of that are to be used instead of Stills, Baths, and Cauldrons.
There follows now the preparation of the vessel.
The making of a wooden vessell for a Balneum, which is to be used in stead of copper and leaden Cauldrons for digestion, and distillation by glasse vessels.
A wooden vessell serving for boiling of beere, metheglin, vinegar, &c. as well as copper Iron and tin vessels.
A wooden vessel for a bath for sweet, or minerall water, which may be according as you please, kept warm, for the preserving of health.
Of the use of wooden vessels in distilling, boyling, bathing, &c. And first of the distilling vessel.
And first of the preparation of the lees of wine, beer, hydromel, and other drinkes.
Of the preparation of all kind of corn, as wheat, Oats, Barly, &c. which must goe before the distilling of the spirit.
Of the difference of malting.
Of the fermentution of Malt.
Of the fermentation of Honey.
Of the preparation of fruits, seeds, flowers, hearbs, roots, &c.
An Annotation.
The manner of distilling in generall followeth.
The manner of distilling spices, seeds, flowers, hearbs, roots, Woods, &c.
How Oyles are to be coagulated into Balsames.
The manner of preparing follows.
There followes now the use of the second wooden vessel, which is to be used in stead of those of copper or lead, serving for distillations, di∣gestions, extractions, and fixatious.
And first of a vomitive Extract.
A purging Extract.
A Diaphoretical Extract.
A Diuretical Extract.
A Somniferous Extract.
A Cordial Extract.
Of an odoriferous Extract.
Of Baths.
Of a Bath of sweet or common water.
Of the nature, and property of natural Baths.
And first of sulphureous Bathes that have a subtil acidity.
Now follows the mixture of those subtile mineral, sulphureous, and salt spirits with water.
Of Sulphur Bathes.
The use of the Copper Globe in dry Baths, which are more excellent then the moist in many cases.
Now follows a wooden vessel which is to be used in stead of a Caldron in boyling of Beer, Metheglin, Vinegar, &c.
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THE FOVRTH PART OF PHILOSOPHICAL FURNACES.
Of making the Furnace.
How minerals are to be tryed.
Of the melting of mines and metals.
Of the separation of metals.
Of separating courser metals.
What is to be held concerning the perfection of Metals.
Another Demonstration by a dry way.
Of the Philosophers Stone.
Whether minerals, As Antimony, Arsenic, Orpin, Cobolt, Zinck▪ Sulphur, &c. may be transmuted into metals, and into what?
Another away of separating the superfluous Antimonial sulphur.
Of the tincture of Sol and Antimony.
Another tincture and medicine of gold.
Of looking glasse.
Metallick mixture for the matter of the glass.
Of the smoothing and polishing looking glasses.
Of metallick glasses.
The colouring of the aforesaid mass follows, in which it is made most like to Gemmes.
Of the preparation of the colours for colouring the mass of flints and Crystals.
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THE FIFT PART OF PHILOSOPHICAL FURNACES.
Of the preparation of the Furnace.
Of the Building of the Furnaces.
A Lute for the erecting of Furnaces.
Of the closing of the joints, hindring the evapora∣tion of subtile spirits.
Another lute for broken glasses.
How those subtile spirits when they are made may be kept that they evaporate not.
How glasse stopples are to be smoothed with grinding for the retaining of spirits in their glass vessels.
Of the making of the best crucibles.
Of the vitrification of earthen vessels belonging to the first and second furnace.
Of the use of the aforesaid cups.
AN APPENDIX.
A Preface to the Reader.
Annotations upon the Appendix of the FIFTH BOOK.
PARAGRAPH I.
PARAG. II.
PARAG. III.
PARAG. IV.
PARAG. V.
PARAG. VI.
PARAG. VII.
PARAG. VIII.
PARAG. IX.
PARAG. X.
PARAG. XI.
PARAG. XII.
PARAG. XIII.
PARAG. XIV.
PARAG. XV.
PARAG. XVI.
PARAG. XVII.
PARAG. XVIII.
PARAG. XIX.
PARAG. X. X.
PARAG. XXI.
PARAG. XXII.
PARAG. XXIII.
PARAG. XXIIII.
PARAG. XXV.
PARAG. XXVI.
PARAG. XXVII.
PARAG. XXVIII.
PARAG. XXIX.
PARAG. XXX.
PARAG. XXXI.
PARAG. XXXII.
PARAG. XXXIII.
PARAG. XXXIV.
PARAG. XXXV.
PARAG. XXXVI.
PARAG. XXXVII.
PARAG. XXXVIII.
The conclusion.
To the Malitious.
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OF AƲRƲM POTABILE.
Of the medicinall use of this golden Medicine.
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A Preface to the Reader.
The first Part of the Minerall Work.
A most profitable process of the separation of gold, out of flints, sand, clay, red and black Talck and other Fossiles, containing very sub∣tile Gold, thin and spongeous, which otherwise cannot be separated ei∣ther for its scarcity or the obstinacy of the Minerall by reason of the great cost to be bestowed; viz. very easily with the spirit of salt.
Now follows the preparation of flints, and the extraction of the gold contained in them, by the spirit of salt.
Here follows the work to be performed by Funnels.
How impure Gold may be separated and purged by Antimony.
Now follows the way of separating gold silver from Antimony.
Here follows the use of Antimoniall Flowers.
The preparation followeth.
An Admonition.
Of the vertues of this Medicine.
Of the use and dose of this Medicine.
Now follow the vertues which it manifesteth in metallicks.
How the aforesaid Regulus, of the flowerss and dross of Antimony, is to be used in the bettering of course metals, shall be shewen, that art may not be abused.
Now follows its use.
The flux requisite to this worke.
The Contents of the first Part.
The Contents of the second Part.
The Contents of the third Part.
The Contents of the fourth Part.
The Contents of the fifth Part.
Annotations upon the Appendix of the fifth Book.
The Contents of the first part of the Mineral Work.
errata
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