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23 What the Generation of Minerals Is and Which Principles Constitute Them
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1723 pp 179–180Entgegen aber concentrire man den Eimer Wasser, darinne das Corrosiv ist, evaporando aquam, so wird man das Corrosiv immer mehr und mehr schärffer spüren und empfinden. Macht also die Quantität des Wassers das Corrosiv unempfindlich: Welches die Herrn ungläubigen Thomas-Brüder fein blendet, und von dem wahren Grund und Haupt-Fundament ableitet, daß sie nimmer hinter die wahren Principia Naturae kommen. Derowegen so bald solche corrosivische Dämpffe zur Erde oder Stein kommen, hängen sie sich an selbe an, und greiffen solvendo die Erden an, und machen sich hierdurch corporalisch zu einem vitriolischen oder alaunischen Saltz, welches beweißlich per Mechanismum. Man nehme ein Corrosiv, was man für eins wolle, Spir. Nitri, Salis aut Aqua Regis, wirff eine Erde hinein, welche das Corrosiv ergreiffen kan, so wird sich die Schärffe in die Erde begeben und anhängen. Die Erde wird solviret, das Corrosiv wird coagulirt. Solches wird man gewahr, so die Feuchtigkeit ad tertiam Partem evaporirt wird, und das übrige in einen Keller gesetzt, so wird es sich zu einem vitriolischen Saltz oder Crystall schiessen nach Art und Gestalt der Erde. Aus welchem Vitriol man siehet, daß das Corrosiv sich an der Erde todt gefressen, indem es selbe solviret hat.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 23 What the Generation of Minerals Is and Which Principles Constitute Them
1723 pp 179–180Conversely, concentrate the bucket of water containing the corrosive by evaporating its water, and the corrosive will be perceived increasingly sharply. The quantity of water therefore makes the corrosive imperceptible. This neatly blinds the gentlemen of the brotherhood of doubting Thomas, leading them away from the true ground and principal foundation so that they never discover nature’s true principles. As soon as such corrosive vapours reach earth or stone, they attach themselves, attack the earth by dissolving it, and thereby become corporeal as a vitriolic or aluminous salt. Operation can prove this. Take any corrosive—spirit of nitre, salt, or aqua regia—and throw into it an earth it can attack. The sharpness will enter and adhere to the earth; the earth is dissolved and the corrosive coagulated. This becomes apparent if the moisture is evaporated to a third and the remainder placed in a cellar: it will crystallize into a vitriolic salt or crystal according to the kind and form of the earth. This vitriol shows that the corrosive has eaten itself to death upon the earth by dissolving it.
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The two-book alchemical work of 1723 in German with a new English translation, 399 notes, eight historical diagrams, chapter outlines, keyword essays, a glossary, bibliography, subject index, and 400 discussion questions.
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Anonymous, Aurea Catena Homeri. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Georg Böhme, 1723. Traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; the attribution remains uncertain. Historical diagrams from the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung copy digitized by e-rara.
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