Nuova Guida alla Chimica by Carlo Lancillotti on the indispensable operations to reduce metals to a very subtle powder or calcination.
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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 1Lancillotti 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.
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Nicaise le Febvre, not to be confused with Nicolas le Fevre, was another well-known French seventeenth-century iatrochemist. Neglecting his Traitè de la Chymie, Paris 1660, might be a mistake. I consider this book indispensable to tying ancient chemistry to Alchemy. Here is a unique laboratory tool: the egg inside the egg.
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To deprive spirits of their body: the ultimate Jean Brouaut’s goal in Traité de l’Eau de Vie. When a subtle alcoholic medicine reaches Spiritus Vini Lulliani.
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