Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].

  • John Pettus
Date:
1683
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Credit: Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SalNitrSal Vitriolic Sal^etre, (and common Salt ,) Sal Tartar (or ^rga/, of which I have fpoken,)and alfo Sal Gem, (which is the fe\emh(tMletaUic\Salt,) and is produced from a Rocky Chriftalline ftone ,and of thefe he fpeaks,and of no more, it being a lubjed; of great extent, for l conceive there may be as many forts of Salts, extra&ed, as there are Terreflrial Crea¬ tures /or all things do confijl of Salt, sulphur and Mercury (as I have faid) but that which I aimed at, was to give an account of our natural [alts, from Spings in Chejhire and IVarcefier- jhire, and from the Lands on the South fides of Devonshire and Cormval, which are full of Salts; for with thofe Sands, fo niixt,they manure their Lands to a great profit, and of which moft other Coafts °f Ragland are wanting, and have only the Sea-water to make their Common-Salt,but I cannot enlarge my obfervations upon any more words, becaule the Printer calls for what I did write of a MetaUichJDitlionary,after I firft pro- poled the Printing of Erckern, but intending within the com- pals of a year to publifh Georgim Agricola,de re MetaUica (be¬ ing fully tranflatedj in Englifhy and alfo to add a Dictiona¬ ry to it,I fhall referve my remaining EfaysfiC what I have done hitherto, be aprovedy\\\ then, and fo I proceed in the Dicti¬ onary. SANDS, /.i. 6, 29, &>c. T.and A.Sand, and fo the Bel- gick, but the Italian, theSpnijh and Latine call it Arena, and the French,Sables, (which in Heraldry fignifies black,') alfo it is the name of the Furr of a little Beaft, called fabellus, and mu- f]lulus, fatmaticus, of a fandy colour. However [and is of vari¬ ous ules in MetaUic}\s (diS fand-Ovens,See. )mA. confifl of great varieties in England, which may admit of curious fpeculations. See Earth, Gold, Mortar, Ovens, Petrification, Stones, Water. SANDIVER, /.2. . &c. is the fame with fal Alka¬ li > which Pliny, (l. 31. c. 7.) calls the Tragafeanfait, and is the fame with fal Vitri,or fait ofCflafs. SCALES, are of a Ballance for weighing Metals, whereof vou will find two forts in Erckern, viz- Prooffeales, 1.1. c. 3 4. y [Kk] ft**