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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    U IT TER, /.4. c- 11, 12, and 15. explaind to ixi v Tm well beaten, and tis not only thus with dyVEetals which tnuft be beaten, (that the Advantages may re¬ dound to themfelves in a more refined temper5 and make them ufeful to the World) but we fee that Corn mud be thrajtid, and ground for /<W: Grapes' and other /ntfzLr contufed to make Liquors more acceptable, and man himfelf mu ft under¬ go OppreJJions to make him happy, which I here mention as my Conclufion, in Imitation of Erckern his Zeal for God’s Glory,wherewith he concludes the laft page of his five Books; for according to the Maxim of the Ko/y Crucians fand beft Qhimijls) Excellent ijjima dona abfque Piet ate vana : which may be rendred thus,, By true Viety the bravejl Sciences are accomplished. FINIS- / [N„]