The art of distillation, or a treatise of the choicest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation ... together with the description of ... furnaces and vessels also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments ... and of the anatomy of gold and silver / [John French].
- John French
- Date:
- 1653
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The art of distillation, or a treatise of the choicest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation ... together with the description of ... furnaces and vessels also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments ... and of the anatomy of gold and silver / [John French]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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