The science and art of anatomizing any alcoholic beverage in the seventeenth century to obtain water of life/brandy. A step toward quintessence.
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Brouaut and the Alliance of Water and Fire part 2
Theories and experiments by a chemist discovering Alchemy. In Traité de l’Eau de Vie, by Jean Brouaut, lays the foundation of lifting volatile substances.
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Traité de l’Eau de Vie, or treatise on Water of Life by Jean Brouaut. Much more than an essay on common brandy. Spiritus Vini Lulliani three centuries after.
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The mystery of Aqua Regia as a more effective gold dissolvent than the modern one. Perhaps because of the strange ancient work with salts.
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It is a very short and easy Lemery’s recipe that might be full of alchemical consequences. Raw Tartar of barrels, calcined at coal and deliquescent in a cellar. And rainwater.
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