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Commentariorum alchymiæ... Pars prima, sex libris declarata: Continens explicationem operationum chymicarum priore artis libro comprehensarum, adiectis fornacum et aliorum vasorum figuris, partim ex impressis antehac autoribus, partim aliunde acceptis, & ex latibulis officinarum productis. Præmissa est Defensio Alchemiæ et refutatio obiectionum ex censura scholæ Parisiensis, quæ licet videri nolit hanc Alchemiam, sed Quercetani damnasse, nimis tamen frigide de arte sentit, eaque proponit, quæ in ludibrium & ignominiam artis simpliciter possunt converti, nec sonant aliter.
2° Francofurti ad Moenum: excudebat Ioannes Saurius impensis Petri Kopffii [1606]
Ferguson Young
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Pars secunda, continens tractatus quosdam singulares ad illustrationem eorum potissimum, quæ libro Alchemiae secundo habentur difficiliora laboriosioraque, quaeque, plurium simul artium adminiculo indigent, & veluti ex multis constituta, peculiarum scientiarum dignitatem & nomen merentur
[Illustrations:-
Numerous woodcuts in the text.
1. p95 85x145mm. Plan of spagyric building.
2. p97 158x149mm. The south and east elevations of the spagyric building.
3. p98 137x147mm. The north and west elevations of the spagyric building.
4. p99 68x73mm. A place for preparing nitre, with the piles of ore left to weather beside a building for processing the ore.
5. p102 (top). 180x145mm. Cutaway diagram of a furnace.
6. p102 (bottom). 103x144mm. Various grates and fire-irons for the furnace.
7. p103 180x145mm. Seven designs for furnaces.
8. p104 35x65mm. The base of a furnace.
9. p105 (top). 108x106mm. Different designs for components of a furnace.
10. p105 (middle). 30x108mm. Three different designs for parts of a furnace.
11. p105 (bottom). 55x60mm. Parts of a furnace.
12. p106 165x146mm. Press for crushing ores, with various crucibles and other apparatus.
13. p107 (top). 100x105mm. A retort being heated on a brazier, together with a furnace that can be worked with bellows.
14. p107 (bottom). 67x73mm. Bellows used for heating a crucible.
15. p108 60x62mm. A rectangular furnace with three steps.
16. p109 (top). 60x65mm. Stalls used for storing or weathering ores?
17. p109 (bottom left). 60x65mm. Sluices for extracting ores.
18. p109 (bottom right). 62x66mm. Two rectangular furnaces.
19. p110 67x74mm. Two furnaces, one with flame guard.
20. p111 (top). 65x74mm. Furnace with bellows.
21. p111 (bottom). 65x74mm. The base of a furnace, with different compartments.
22. p112 58x92mm. Two domed furnaces.
23. p113 (top) 139x93mm. Furnace with vessels for evapourating and extracting salt.
24. p113 (bottom) 47x149mm. Apparatus similar to that in item 23.
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Second Book.
192. Woodcut on titlepage. 120x109mm. A man rides on the back of an eagle "In Deo laetandum". [Saurus's printer's device]
193. p51 257x143mm. First figure with crow on moon.
194. p53 234x131mm. Shield form with explanation opposite.
195. p55 273x147mm. Same as first figure, with explanation opposite.
196. p56 130x144mm. Lions on steps.
197. p137 40x65mm. Two items used in the proving of metals.]