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12 Nitre and Salt Are Found in All Waters and Earths
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1723 pp 65–66Daß das Nitrum und Sal aus dem Regen, Schnee, Reiff rc. zu bringen, weiset obige Probe. Daß es aber in aller Erde und Wasser ist, ist eben auf solche Manier zu sehen. Denn so man solche, es sey welche es wolle, die da in superficie terræ ist, als in Aeckern, Wiesen, Morästen, Bergen und auch Thälern mit gemeinen distillirten oder rohen Brunnen-Wasser solviret, filtriret und ad tertiam partem evaporiret, denn schiessen läst, wie bey dem Regen-Wasser in allem procediret, so wird man befinden ein Nitrum und Sal, nachdem die Erde starck imprægniret ist, viel oder wenig. Solches ist keiner sonderbaren Probe noth, man frage nur die Salpeter-Sieder, die werden genug Bescheid davon geben, denen es am besten bewußt ist. Also auch aus allen Wassern und Brunnen, denn wie viel findet man Brunnen, die gantz salinisch und nitrosisch sind? Die Flüsse aber, ist gantz klar, denn solche fliessen ja durch die Erde und solviren das Sal und Nitrum heraus und führen es mit sich durch alle Land ins Meer. Daß aber das Meer mehr Sal als Nitrum führet, ist die Ursach, daß es stets von der Sonne bestrahlet, reverberiret und von Winden hin und wieder getrieben wird, daß es immer beweglich, allwo der Salpeter reverberiret wird, u. durch solche unabläßige reverberation u. Bewegung verlieret er das Fulmen und wird aus ihm ein Alcali.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 12 Nitre and Salt Are Found in All Waters and Earths
1723 pp 65–66The preceding test shows that nitre and salt can be obtained from rain, snow, frost and so forth. Their presence in every earth and water can be seen in the same manner. Take any soil from the earth’s surface—fields, meadows, marshes, mountains or valleys—dissolve its soluble matter with ordinary distilled or raw well water, filter, evaporate to one third and let it crystallize, proceeding in every respect as with rainwater. You will find much or little nitre and salt according to how strongly the soil is impregnated. No special demonstration is needed: ask the saltpeter boilers, who know it best and can tell enough about it. It is the same with waters and springs. How many springs are found entirely saline and nitrous! With rivers the case is quite clear: they flow through earth, dissolve out salt and nitre, and carry them through every land to the sea. The sea contains more salt than nitre because it is continually irradiated and reverberated by the sun and driven to and fro by winds, remaining in motion. Saltpeter is thereby reverberated; through this unceasing reverberation and movement it loses its fulminating power and becomes an alkali.
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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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