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
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
Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 1
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
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 Spagyria mixed together and 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
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 made easy by Carlo Lancillotti in a effortless chemical language from Currus Triumphalis Antimonii. Experiences on Starry Regulus. [Read more…] about Lancillotti and the Starry Regulus according to Basilius
Lancillotti and the Magisterium of Urine on Caput Mortuum
Carlo Lancillotti prepares a volatile salt of urine distilling it on the Caput Mortuum, the part which doesn’t rise. So we see what a volatile salt is for. [Read more…] about Lancillotti and the Magisterium of Urine on Caput Mortuum