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
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
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 renaissance and baroque period. [Read more…] about Glaser 3, Passive Principles, Alcohol, Amalgam & Calcination
Glaser’s Frontispiece
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
Glaser 2, Active Three Principles
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
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