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Alchemy & Ancient Chemistry

Phantom Play’s Earth Salt Self Extractor

By Iulia Millesima

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

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A Faqs Improvement: Spiritus Mundi and Salts Exposition.

By Iulia Millesima

Can we condense the Spiritus Mundi through a salt exposition? A forgetfulness in faqs section, now remedied. [Read more…] about A Faqs Improvement: Spiritus Mundi and Salts Exposition.

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Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 3

By Iulia Millesima

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

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Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 2

By Iulia Millesima

In the second part of Trionfo del Mercurio, Carlo Lancillotti explains other three purging systems and, with the last one, the living mercury proceeding. [Read more…] about Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 2

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Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 1

By Iulia Millesima

Carlo Lancillotti  starts his long speech on mercury from traditional sources and giving a first method to purify the metal. [Read more…] about Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 1

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Lancillotti: Glass and Oil according to Currus Thriumphalis. Part 2

By Iulia Millesima

The second part of Carlo Lancillotti’s commentary on Basilius Valentinus recipes on Antimony. Alchemy, ancient chemistry and Spagyria mixed together and to attentively discern. [Read more…] about Lancillotti: Glass and Oil according to Currus Thriumphalis. Part 2

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Lancillotti and how to Calcine, or Powder, Metals

By Iulia Millesima

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

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Lancillotti: Glass and Oil according to Currus Thriumphalis. Part 1

By Iulia Millesima

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

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