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11 a Clear Proof That Nitre and Salt Are in Air and in All Things in the World
German & Latin
1723 pp 65Aus diesem hoffen wir sattsam probiret zu haben theoretice & practice, daß in der Lufft ein Salpeter und Saltz, wiewol flüchtig sey, und daß das Fulmen der Beweiß, und die Gegenwart solcher beyden erweise, welches denn hernach, wie oben gesagt ist, aus dem Regen-Wasser durch die Putrefaction corporalisch dargestellet. Nun wollen wir aus der Lufft auf die Erde und Wasser kommen, und deren Subjecta auch examiniren, ob Nitrum & Sal als generatores & corruptores, conservatores & destructores, & rursus regeneratores universorum, in ihnen zu finden.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 11 a Clear Proof That Nitre and Salt Are in Air and in All Things in the World
1723 pp 65We hope by this to have sufficiently demonstrated in theory and practice that saltpeter and salt are present in air, though volatile, and that the fulminating effect proves the presence of both. As stated above, they are then displayed bodily from rainwater through putrefaction. We shall now pass from air to earth and water and examine their substances as well, to see whether nitre and salt are found within them as the generators and corrupters, preservers and destroyers, and renewed regenerators of all things.
Socrates
Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 11 a Clear Proof That Nitre and Salt Are in Air and in All Things in the World · B1C11S004 · 1723 pp 65
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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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