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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    Chap. VU. Se£tion. 4* How to be kept. nefs muft be firft feparated from it, by boyling and bur¬ ning them (as before) but this according to ones plea- fure, and which Clar .any one likes beft, he may ufe, only he muft be careful to fee that they be finely ground to Ponder. When the Clar is ground to ponder, then fome do wafh it in fair water, and make four-fquare )Pieces of it, or Balls (like Chalftone)as I myfelf did font? years fince, but 1 find that if it be finely ground, and tlrycd only, it is the better, becaufe by walhing and. drying it, and making them into pieces or Balls, they will grow hard, and cannot be lo well leraped from the Lumps, as with that which is in Ponder. - . ‘ Now, how the Copel-Cafe and the Copel is to be or¬ dered and performed the following Scnlptnre will fihew. Sculpture V. '»1:; rv x ■ ( I* \1‘ J : \ \ sy r « • _ : , ] xi A. v y, d’F A