The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: 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 / Translated into English, and pub. for publick good by Christopher Packe.

  • Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
Date:
1689
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Credit: The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: 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 / Translated into English, and pub. for publick good by Christopher Packe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flcAtlj fnijljed the whole Operatio^y and had advanced it to a due^ and thrctnghly ferpcl^ .cnd^ N'o ! \ i cannot arrogate to my ft If by any means’^ any fnch matter. Thus much J only affirm.^ that if any I 'one fhall ( in his Operation) folbw the bare literal Defcription of thefe Laboursl^ he will with* 'out any Error arrive, fo far as J my felf am already come.^ blip yet with this Provifo, that he I knows the true Salt of the Philofophers^ and the nfe thereof \ And as for what remains, [ unfn.fht ] / commit unto God to bejlow a profperous Succefs : And this one thing I entreat., that every Body accept of the things 'I have here written, with the fame mind I wrote them , and that he take in j good part my fncere EMeatiours of deferving well at his hands. L - > ' ' • .'.L- The Explication of the annexed Figure belonging to this Trea- tife^ noted with thele Words : Inde Dialogus. IN the four principal Points of the Circle '(fappofing two tkanfverfe lines were drawn, through the Center , to the outward Circumference ) are placed the CharaBers of Sol, Sulphur, I Lune, Salt. i Round the outmojl Circle, are. placed thefe Pfbrds : Conjoyn in one, Sol, Salt, Sulphtir, Lhne. About the next Circle : And thou haft as great a Treafure, as Heaven can give thee, i Within the Third Circle: The Philofophers Fundion, is of Contraries, the Conjun6lion. ■ ' About the next Circle : The Concentration of Horriogenealsi is the Separation of Hetero- i geneals. ^ Within the ihmofl Circle : Sol, Sallt, Sulphur, Lune.' ‘ c \ Dhe Firfl Dialogue^ or Conference^ hetmxi hvo Lovers of Her ike ^ iic^ <i5Adfecliciney deciphered hj the Letters^ A: and B. the, lafi of ibhich hath had a profperous Succefs on his Labours, the other noti and therefore craves of this laft (viz. £. ) aManu-duction to the Worl^, whereby he is rendred Mafler of his defire. A Good health to you, my Friend ! What’s the matter with you now, that you are fo fad, and even loaden with Cogitati¬ ons , tlnd mumble to your fcif about I Rnow not what ? A. Oh, my Friend ! I wijh you the like very heartily V akd am glad that you come jo very feaj'onably, and at fttch a iime, as I was jnji thinking on you, and mojl earHejily wijhitigyour approach'■> Witnefsyour own Wri¬ tings, which 1 do here turn over with my hands and my mind, but yet they are fo very obfeure, that / cannot worm my ftlff as J may fay ]] out of them, C or underhand them I though I apply the utmof of my Endeavours to underhand them. I have Ukewije read over and over attain, the Writings of other eminent and belief-deferving Philfophers -, jiill hoping, that IJhould yet at length attain to the knowledge of the ‘Truth: Bui alas, ( the more’s my grief') ah that ifind is only this,\\t. that! hold in my hands the fippery Tail of a fippery fmooth Serpent, [ or hit j pAsich ever now and then fips tfut of my bands, and doth ■ more and more defile me. I have therefore refolutely deter- mined with my Jelf, tbdP, unlefs God dothjhortly fnd me, fame good Friend, who may lead poor me out of fuch a notable Labyrinth, I will throw all my Books, all my In* jlruments, and all fuch matters which I have bejiowed fo much time about, i» vain, and bji fo much hy, into the Fire, and Sacrifice theni unto Vulcan, that fo 1 may be rid f the tedioufnefs of niy fruitlefs Labours, and un-^ profiahle CookpTy. BUt yet if you would be but fo plea- fed, I no Ways doubt , but that you might by a few words and Vireblions ] reduce me out of the fnares of fo many Erroneous paths, and hedged up ways, into the right path : For I well kporp, that you have bedewed your, whole Age, your yohole Study, and all your Labours and Endeavours, about fuch great Secrets, and-have bj the Divine ajji/fence obtained the very Truth it felf. And therefore I do moft hunibly beg at your hands, that you would not leave me dejiitute of your help, but that, accor-, ding to your inbred Goodnefs and Courtefe, you would fuccour nie, your Friend, with fame brotherly injirudion^ and HAanudUSlion. Which if you either will not er car.-^ not do, I mu{i even conclude, not only upon throughly doubting of the ‘Iruth and pojjibility of this Art , but wit ha f on a frm perfuading my felf, that thofe Writings, which