Nicaise le Febvre, not to be confused with Nicolas le Fevre, was another well-known french seventeenth-century iatrochemist. Neglecting his Traitè de la Chymie, Paris 1660, might be a mistake. I consider this book indispensable to tying ancient chemistry to Alchemy. Here is a unique laboratory tool: the egg inside the egg.
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Brouaut, how to Extract the Dye and Soul
To deprive spirits of their body: the ultimate Jean Brouaut’s goal in Traité de l’Eau de Vie. When a subtle alcoholic medicine reaches Spiritus Vini Lulliani. [Read more…] about Brouaut, how to Extract the Dye and Soul
Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Third Book 1
In Augurello’s last part, the origin and making of the powder come innately along with natural processes. So the alchemical glass birth is not unlike pearls. [Read more…] about Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Third Book 1
Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 2
Augurello, in the Crysopoeia second bookend, introduces the concept of a saffron powder able to transmute every metal giving it the color of a star. [Read more…] about Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 2
Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 1
Those stating Augurello denies chemical operative systems to make gold have just run over his Crysopoeia. Let’s have a thorough examination of his words. [Read more…] about Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 1
Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. First Book
Metallic gold is made from water, namely celestial water from the sky. To this ancient assertion, Augurello tries to give a rationale and a method. [Read more…] about Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. First Book
Baro Urbigerus & the Circulatum Tree
The Circulatum Tree picture in Aphorismi by Urbigerus or Urbigerani represents the Volatile Fixation process in Circulatorium for both Circulatum Maius and Minus.
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Starkey alkaline salts volatilization method, retaken by Le Pelletier, reminds me of an ancient Alchemy when Mercurius could be achieved in a fragrant way.
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