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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to operations: and never ceafeth untill it hath brousht the purpoles of the Artift to a defired accomplifhment, Whence we may inferre , that Science is only of fuch things as are!;not in our power, ‘and that’ Art doth bufie it felf upon fuch things as are in’ our power, This being granted, we muft know, thar as Chymiftry is of a ercat extents fo it) hath alfo feveral ends, and that as it hath all the {phereof Nature for its ob ject, fome things are under the power and reach of its difciples, others not’; ‘and be- fides thefe two kindes of fubjeés, which are wholly of a diferent nature y there as athird fort, pardy under cheir power; and partly not: Whence we may in fomeé man- ner conclude,: that there are phree [pecies of Chymiftry s theone wholly Scientifical and Piven to Conremplation, and may be very wellitcarmed P/)i1], {ophical, having only its, end in the knowledge of Nature, ‘anid Of irs effcdts becaufe ir takes for obje& tkofe ony things which are conttiruted out of our power: So that this kinde of Chy- mical Philofophy, doth rett fatisfied in the knowledze of the nature of the Heavens and Starres, the fource and original of the Elements; the caufe of Metcors, otiginal: of Minerals, and the way by which Plants and Animals are propagated; having not in her power’ to frame or make any one of all thefe things, but being futficicntly pleafed with entertaining her difcourfe and reafon upon. the cavfes of fo: many various cficas. The fecond /pecies be ‘called Jatrochymy of Medicinal Chymittry, whofe only-end -is operation; but fot to be attained, unleffe by: the means and helping hand of Con- Chymiftry : for as the art of Phylick, confitts in two parts, ‘Theory and Pra@ice ; the fo thall alfo latrochymy partic’pate of both ; the end of. CS

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