The art of metals in which is declared the manner of their generation and the concomitants of them : in two books / written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba ... curate of St. Bernards parish in the imperial city of Potosi, in the kingdom of Peru in the West-Indies, in the year 1640 ; translated in the year 1669 by the R. H. Edward, Earl of Sandwich.

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Author:	Barba, Alvaro Alonso, b. 1569.
Title:	The art of metals in which is declared the manner of their generation and the concomitants of them : in two books / written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba ... curate of St. Bernards parish in the imperial city of Potosi, in the kingdom of Peru in the West-Indies, in the year 1640 ; translated in the year 1669 by the R. H. Edward, Earl of Sandwich.
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Alternate titles:	Arte de los metales. English
Subject terms:	Metals. Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800. Mines and mineral resources -- Early works to 1800.
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THE PREFACE.

The manner how Mettals and other substances that accompany Them are en∣gendred.

CHAP. 1. Of the Companions of Mettals, and first of the Earth, and the several Colours thereof.

CHAP. 2. Of the divers Smells of the Earth, and the reason thereof.

CHAP. 3. How to know the Condition of the Earth by the Taste.

CHAP. 4. Of the Names and Ʋses of some sorts of Earth.

CHAP. 5. Of Juices, and first of Allum.

CHAP. 6. Of Copperas.

CHAP. 7. Of Salt.

CHAP. 8. Of Salt Ammoniac, and other Salts.

CHAP. 9. Of Juices, which the Spaniards call Be∣tunes.

CHAP. 10. Of Sulphur and Antimony.

CHAP. 11. Of Marcasita, Orpiment, and Sandaraca.

CHAP. 12. Of the Generation of Stones.

CHAP. 13. Of the Differences of Stones one from a∣nother.

CHAP. 14. Of Precious Stones.

CHAP. 15. Whether there be precious Stones in the King∣dome of Peru.

CHAP. 16. Of other sorts of Stones.

CHAP. 17. Of some accidents happening to Stones, and the Causes of them.

CHAP. 18. Of the Generation of Mettals.

CHAP. 19. The Opinion that Quicksilver and Sulphur are the matter whereof Mettals are made, is defended.

CHAP. 20. Of the efficient and formal causes of Met∣tals.

CHAP. 21. Divers accidents of Mettals.

CHAP. 22. Of the number of Mettals, and the Places wherein they are Engendred.

CHAP. 23. The manner how to find out the Veins of Mettals.

CHAP. 24. Besides those Veins of Mettal, which do discover themselves, or are found by chance, as has been said before, there be others procured by the Art and In∣dustry of Man.

CHAP. 25. Of the several sorts of Veins, and how to find them out.

CHAP. 26. Of Mettals in particular, and first of Gold.

CHAP. 27. Of Silver, and the Mines thereof.

CHAP. 28. Continuing the discourse of the last Chapter, touching the Mines of Silver.

CHAP. 29. Of Copper, and the Mines thereof.

CHAP. 30. Of Iron.

CHAP. 31. Of Lead.

CHAP. 32. Of Tin.

CHAP. 33. Of Quicksilver.

CHAP. 34. Of Artificial Mettals and Mettalli∣ques.

CHAP. 35. Of the Colours of all Minerals generally.

CHAP. 36. Of the Faculties or Vertues of Minerals.

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The Second Book of the Art of Mettals.

CHAP. I. That no man ought to be employed to Refine Mettals, but he that hath been examined and Licensed by Authority.

CHAP. II. What quantities, and what kind of know∣ledge a Refiner ought to have.

CHAP. III. Of the knowledge of Mettals, and the dif∣ferences there are of them.

CHAP. IV. Of the sorting of Oar, and the proper man∣ner of Refining each of them.

CHAP. V. How to know the ill qualities that infect the Oar, and how to purge them away.

CHAP. VI. Of the Grinding of the Oars of Mettal.

CHAP. VII. Touching the Burning of Oar.

CHAP. VIII. Touching the dammage that results from the burning of Oar.

CHAP. IX. Experiments which prove the damage by the burning of Oar if they be not known and remedied.

CHAP. X. Whether the Oar ought to be burnt in the stone or in the meal.

CHAP. XI. Of Materials to be mixed with Oar, when they burn it.

CHAP. XII. What the Refiner must do before he incorporates the Caxon.

CHAP. XIII. Continuing the Rules of the last Chapter, touching Oar that has need of burn∣ing.

CHAP. XIV. Of the nature of Quick-silver.

CHAP. XV. Touching the causes and differences, of that which is called Lis.

CHAP. XVI. Whether it be fitting at first to put in all the Quick-silver, and other materials at once or no.

CHAP. XVII. Of the often repassing the Quick silver through the Oar and the effects thereof.

CHAP. XVIII. Of divers accidents, which happen in the way of Refining by Quick-silver, and their remedies.

CHAP. XIX. In prosecution of the Chapter foregoing.

CHAP. XX. How to know whether or no the Caxon be re∣ady for washing.

CHAP. XXI. That the washing of the Caxones causeth the loss and waste of Quick-silver.

CHAP. XXII. The true causes of the loss of Quick-silver, and their remedies.

CHAP. XXIII. To make the Pine Apples, and to clear them of the Quick-silver.

CHAP. XXIV. Other safer ways of clearing the Pine Apples from Quick-silver.