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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![B. [] I wonder] wherefore C it is ] that no Body can think of this Matter, feeing it is evident, rhat in our Water the firft Entities of all the Metals are abun¬ dantly hidden, as in their own proper Seed, out of which they are generated in the Earth, and ripened unto perfeftion. Thofe firft Entities are but extra- ded out of this our Water, by [ peculiar ] Magnets. And now, like as every Metal hath its own Magnet, even fo everyone [of them] hath its proper Mag¬ net, by which it is concentrated into a narrow Room. I will declare unto you the Truth of this bufinefs, by an example taken from the Metals. If you have a Water fully impregnated with Copper, and ^ou delire to have Copper out of the faid Water, you will ea- llly bring this to pafs, if you fl«all but put in to that Water, which holds in it the Copper, a piece of clean Iron, the which Iron, (as being the true Magnet of the Copper,) will attrad unto it felf, all the invifi- ble Copper out of the Water, and gather it into a vi- lible and palpable Metal. If Silver be diflToIv’d in any Water and made invifible, and you would again have it, put into the Solution a Plate of pure [ or clean ] Copper, which ( after a Magnetick manner) will ga¬ ther together [or draw out] all the Silver in his own [Silvery] Body, and make it vifible and pal¬ pable. Now when Gold is diflblved in fome Water, and largely difperfed, ^ as I may fay ] and you would again have it [in the form of Gold,] then put in {ome ^ or Ar. vive in that Water, and boyl it a little therewithal, (as was done above, with the Copper and Sih'er ) and you fliall prefently fee all the Gold to be attiadfed, and gathered together by the Mercury,, in- fomuch that there will not remain ought of the Gold in the Water, becaufe it follows the Attradfion of its own Magnet, Mercury. Thefe MetsUtek^ and Magne- ikk^ Operations, are a fufficiently manifeft Informa¬ tion unto us, and do point out unto ’us ( as with a Finger } the way, of the extracting, not only good Metals in a Particular manner, but alfo far better things than Metals, ('viz. the Tincture, or form of Gold ) out of our ftinking Water , in an Vniverfal way, by fuch Magnets, as are fit and apt in Nature for this Extraction. Another fimilitude we have from the Earth, and Rain water, with which the Fruits of the Earth are moiftned : Put you in fuch an Earth moiftned with that Water, as many Seeds as you pleafe •, each of them, will ( by its Magnetick Virtue) attract unto its felf, its own like, for its Multiplica¬ tion, and will leave to the other Seeds, to attract each of them its like alfo. If now, by this fimilitude, the . Scope or end I aim at, may be made manifeft unto you, there is yet hopes you may be holpen : If not, I do not fee, by what means you can be fuccoured, forafmuch as it would be too tedious here to ufe ma¬ ny other Circumftances. For when we are certainly alfured, that the ftrft E«/, or the very Form oT Gold is plcntifu'ly hidden in our Water, we do by very good riglit feek after that beft part,w2.. the form of Gold, and leave the other firft Entities of the relt of the Metals, in the Water. And now He Ihew thee ano¬ ther fimilitude : DilTolve in one and the fame Water, G, J, (J, X , U, that fo you may have all thefe Me¬ tals commixt together in the fame •’ If now you de¬ fire to extract the beft of them, viz. the Gold there out of, what hurt Will the other bring you, if the*y remain in the Water. Such therefore as the Magnet is, which you put into that fame Water, fuch is the Metal too, that you (hall extracif. If therefore we particularly feek 0 and D in our Water, it will be ex¬ pedient, that we put unto this fpiritual o and I> their proper Magnet, unto which Magnets, they (being pre¬ cipitated) do ftick On, and are by little and little fix- ed [oh thereunto.] And now if we feek afterfomc- thing better than O and D, viz. the form and Tin¬ cture of Geld, it will be neceflary, that we alfo apply fuch a [ fuitable] Magnet, which may draw out no¬ thing elfe but the Tineffure or Form of Gold, which being precipitated [thereout of] may be fixed. And thus have I here told yOu all thofe things that are neceflary to be known. If you are minded to extract in z Particular Way, Sol and Lane out of the Univer- fal Mineral water, yoii muft then put unto them their Magnet, viz. an Amalgama of Copper, and Argent vive : For the Copper draws to it felf the fpiritual Sil¬ ver, and the 5 the fpiritual Gold, out of the faid Wa¬ ter, and brings it unto a Fixation [ or Corporeity ] with it felf, [ or, as it felf is. ] But if you are minded, or defirous, of getting fome better thing, than the Gold if felf, or Silver, is, viz. a Tincfliute, you muft then needs adjoyn thereto its own peculiar Magnet, for, without it, you cannot cffecT any thing at all : But that you may know, what the true Magnet of the Tineffure is, I fay unto you, lhat is the Compeere, or Companion of our l^ater, and not of the Metals : For- like feeks its like, as the Philofophers fay, Nature re-, joyceth with Nature, Nature overcomes Nature, Na¬ ture retains Nature : More than thefe thipgs I have, told you, it is not needful for you to know : Confi- der therefore very accurately what I have faid, and beg of God by your Prayers a blcfling,-which if you do, you fliall pot eir, but yet you will not be all of a fudden Mafter of what you defire. All thefe things have their determinate times, like as a Grain of Wheat fown in the Earth, the which requires a time to ripen in, nor doth it wax ripe afore the time appointed foe Maturation be come about. Follow you the Advice left By and do ncDt haften on your Work, by any the leaft hafly fpecd : For he tells us exprefly, that all haftning in our Work is of the Devil. <,Aod as concerning what is to be known, and what a one the Student of fo noble an Art ought to be, you will find deferibed in the Fifth Part of my Spagyrical Pharma- copjta. And what think you now ? Can you thorough¬ ly ufiderftand me.^ C. Xe/, Verily I do well enough under^and thofe things which I have hitherto heard from you ^ But yet this JVo- mens work^., which you began a 'Declaration of is not fuficiently clear unto >we, nor is that Boys-plaj^ which is done with fmall Bowls cr Knickers., I do not thoroughly un- derjiand that neither, vii. how it may be compared w'lth the work^of the Philofophers. Were but thefe things made clear and evident unto me, I wouldKanck^my felf amongji the number of the Majiers efthe Art. B. Well then, come let us go on and fee, by what means the Philofophers are wont to make their little Bowls. [ Note ! ] Like as the Boys make ufe of Earth and Water, for the making of their Pellets or Knic¬ kers: So likewife will we ufe our Earth, and our Water to the making of our fmall Bowls or Pellets: Curs, I fty, not the vulgar and common Earth and Water, for they are unprofitable as to our U'ork. But. tis indifferent, and all cine, whether we take Yellow, Red, or white Earth, bccaufe all of them arc of one and the fame Nature. According to the Colour of the Earth which we ufe, will the Colour of the fmall Balls we make, be: We have here at hand a tiireefold Earth, a yellow Earth of Gold, a white of Silver and a Red of Copper. This threefold Earth will we moi- flen with our Water or Mercury, and fo make up a Pafte or Mafs of the two, which thcChymiiis call.an Amalgama. ht](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30322522_0750.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
