The necessity of earth and/or manure salt extraction is a topic you can often find in ancient treatises. Here’s a modern interpretation by Phantom Play. [Read more…] about Phantom Play’s Earth Salt Self Extractor
Alchemy & Ancient Chemistry
Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 3
On the Sublimation of Mercury. Here Carlo Lancillotti knowingly borders on Alchemy. Farmaceutica Antimoniale Trionfo del Mercurio, third book. [Read more…] about Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 3
Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 2
In the second part of Trionfo del Mercurio, Carlo Lancillotti explains the other three purging systems and, with the last one, the living mercury proceeding. [Read more…] about Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 2
Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 1
Carlo Lancillotti starts his long speech on mercury from traditional sources and gives the first method to purify the metal. [Read more…] about Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 1
Lancillotti: Glass and Oil according to Currus Thriumphalis. Part 2
The second part of Carlo Lancillotti’s commentary on Basilius Valentinus’ recipes on Antimony. Alchemy, ancient chemistry, and Spagyric mixed together to attentively discern. [Read more…] about Lancillotti: Glass and Oil according to Currus Thriumphalis. Part 2
Lancillotti and how to Calcine, or Powder, Metals
Nuova Guida alla Chimica by Carlo Lancillotti on the indispensable operations to reduce metals to a very subtle powder, or calcination. [Read more…] about Lancillotti and how to Calcine, or Powder, Metals
Lancillotti: Glass and Oil according to Currus Thriumphalis. Part 1
The glass of Antimony and the Oil of it. Antimony as a fume. And an enigmatic Festina Lente. Carlo Lancillotti repeats the works in Basilius Currus Triumphalis. [Read more…] about Lancillotti: Glass and Oil according to Currus Thriumphalis. Part 1
Lancillotti and the Starry Regulus according to Basilius
Basilius Valentinus was made easy by Carlo Lancillotti in an effortless chemical language from Currus Triumphalis Antimonii. Experiences on Starry Regulus. [Read more…] about Lancillotti and the Starry Regulus according to Basilius