The volatile urine salt 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.
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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.
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In Traité de la Chimie chapter five, Christophle Glaser starts affording operations suitable to seventeenth-century chemistry and Alchemy in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
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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.
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When speaking of Salt obtained by venting, Christophle Glaser may have given a real Secretum Artis, the secret of the Art, a hint.
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