The urine volatile salt really deserves all the attention Glaser assigns to it. Methods to extract it. It is then up to the alchemist to know what to do with it. [Read more…] about Glaser and the Unladylike, but Volatile, Salt of Urine
Glaser Christophle
Glaser 4, Chemical Operations
Christophle Glaser’s Traitè de la Chimie: how to purify and examine a foiled reduced gold, and put it in a crucible together with royal cement, consuming and reducing in residuals the other metals mixed with gold. [Read more…] about Glaser 4, Chemical Operations
Glaser 3, Passive Principles, Alcohol, Amalgam & Calcination
In Traité de la Chimie chapter five Christophle Glaser starts affording operations suitable not only to seventeenth-century chemistry but also to Alchemy in the renaissance and baroque periods. [Read more…] about Glaser 3, Passive Principles, Alcohol, Amalgam & Calcination
Glaser’s Frontispiece
Christophle Glaser is the only chemist of his time who dares use pictures taken from hermetic collections for his book frontispiece. Solve et Coagula is an essential ingredient of Glaser’s time chemistry.
[Read more…] about Glaser’s FrontispieceGlaser 2, Active Three Principles
When speaking of Salt obtained by venting, Christophle Glaser may have given a real Secretum Artis, the secret of the Art, hint. [Read more…] about Glaser 2, Active Three Principles
Glaser 1, Active & Passive Five Principles
In his Traité de la Chimie Christophle Glaser talks about five principles instead of the alchemical three. Active and Passive. [Read more…] about Glaser 1, Active & Passive Five Principles