A compleat body of chymistry: wherin is contained whatsoever is necessary for ... knowledge of this art ... and teaching the most exact preparation of animals, vegetables and minerals, so as to preserve their essential vertues / Rendered into English by P. D[e] C[ardonnel] Esq. one of the gentlemen of His Majesties Privy Chamber. Part. I.[-The second part].

Nicasius le Febure

Date:: 1664

Credit: A compleat body of chymistry: wherin is contained whatsoever is necessary for ... knowledge of this art ... and teaching the most exact preparation of animals, vegetables and minerals, so as to preserve their essential vertues / Rendered into English by P. D[e] C[ardonnel] Esq. one of the gentlemen of His Majesties Privy Chamber. Part. I.[-The second part]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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SEBS IRE S OS ROTI rene ee : APAPDAHASSSBASHSASSARAS: 62826805 0404.4 A Preliminary Difcourfe, containing fome Chymiftry. ee order to teach it, and it is anothcr to difcourfe 190 upon the fame: The fir(t belongs. properly to meee’ the Artift ; the fecond is a matter of deeper {peculation, and belongs to the enquiry of the Philofo- pher, whofe part it is, to treat of the mc thod, objea, end, and’ action of every Art or Science According to thefe rules, we will fuccinGly examine the molt dithculties oc- curring in this Art, propounded in the following Queries, and firlt, Concerning the Names ufualy given toc hymiftry, whence they are derived ? : I Query. This art; as many. others, , harh according to. its feveral effects, received fevera] hames 3 the moft ordj- , nary is that of Chymia, or Chymiftry; which feemeth to have its original’ from the Greek word xvuD, fignifying Gum, or Liquor, becaufe it teacheth to reduce the. moft folid and compa bodies into Juice or Liquor... Some- times it is called Alchy mia, Alchimy, with an : ae lal Lay ee ees ve eg Anfwerable addition of the Arabick Particle fd 44, * which (20. Crtch is the indication of fome remarkable thing.;, Artele 4, i, often times prefixed as.a Particle: Others have. ™ called it Alchamia, {uppofing Cham one of the Sons of. wot eS Neal;

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