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Glaser Christophle

Glaser and the Unladylike, but Volatile, Salt of Urine

By Iulia Millesima

The urine volatile salt really deserves all the attention Glaser assigns to it. Methods to extract it. It is then up to alchemist knowing what to do with it. [Read more…] about Glaser and the Unladylike, but Volatile, Salt of Urine

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Glaser 4, Chemical Operations

By Iulia Millesima

Christophle Glaser’s Traitè de la Chimie:  one Cements 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

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Glaser 3, Passive Principles, Alcohol, Amalgam & Calcination

By Iulia Millesima

In Traité de la Chimie chapter five Christophle Glaser starts affording operations suitable not only to seventeenth century chemistry, but also to Alchemy in renaissance and baroque period. [Read more…] about Glaser 3, Passive Principles, Alcohol, Amalgam & Calcination

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Glaser’s Frontispiece

By Iulia Millesima

Christophle Glaser is the only chemist of his time who dares using pictures taken from hermetic collections for his book frontispiece. As a matter of  fact Solve et Coagula is the most essential ingredient of Glaser’s time chemistry. [Read more…] about Glaser’s Frontispiece

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Glaser 2, Active Three Principles

By Iulia Millesima

When speaking of Salt obtained  by venting, Christophle Glaser may have given a real Secretum Artis, secret of the Art, hint. [Read more…] about Glaser 2, Active Three Principles

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Glaser 1, Active & Passive Five Principles

By Iulia Millesima

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

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