The second part of my translation from the Rotations of Elements, according to Master Rodanius’s description. Taken from Joachim Tancke, or Tanckius, Promptuarium Alchemiae Leipzig 1614. [Read more…] about Rodanius and the Rotation of Elements Part 2
Alchemic Authors 641-1597
Rodanius and the Rotation of Elements Part 1
Master Rodanius wrote a little treatise on Elements. On the rotation of the Elements, as tools of our Alchemical Works. [Read more…] about Rodanius and the Rotation of Elements Part 1
Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Third Book 1
In Augurello’s last part, the origin and making of the powder come innately along with natural processes. So the alchemical glass birth is not unlike pearls. [Read more…] about Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Third Book 1
Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 2
Augurello, in the Crysopoeia second bookend, introduces the concept of a saffron powder able to transmute every metal giving it the color of a star. [Read more…] about Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 2
Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 1
Those stating Augurello denies chemical operative systems to make gold have just run over his Crysopoeia. Let’s have a thorough examination of his words. [Read more…] about Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 1
Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. First Book
Metallic gold is made from water, namely celestial water from the sky. To this ancient assertion, Augurello tries to give a rationale and a method. [Read more…] about Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. First Book
Hollandus, How Urine Salts Extract a White and Red Dye
How a volatile urine salt can extract our White and Red Dye from minerals. By a not-perfect alchemist often mistrusted because of his candor: J. I. Hollandus. [Read more…] about Hollandus, How Urine Salts Extract a White and Red Dye
Artephius and Antimonium est de Partibus Saturni
Are we so sure the translations from latin of Artephius’s Secret Book incipit are faithful? English and french ones are indeed neither correct nor knowledgeable. [Read more…] about Artephius and Antimonium est de Partibus Saturni