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LabyrinthDesigners & the Art of Fire

Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

Glaser Christophle

Glaser and the Unladylike, but Volatile, Salt of Urine

by Iulia Millesima

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

by Iulia Millesima

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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Glaser 3, Passive Principles, Alcohol, Amalgam & Calcination

by Iulia Millesima

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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Glaser’s Frontispiece

by Iulia Millesima

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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Glaser 2, Active Three Principles

by Iulia Millesima

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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    • The State of the Art
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

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