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23 What the Generation of Minerals Is and Which Principles Constitute Them
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1723 pp 167–168Die Disposition deren Animalien und Vegetabilien ist in ihren eigenen Capiteln angedeutet worden. Hier aber wollen wir die Disposition deren Mineralien auch bemahlen. Nemlich die Mineralia sind nichts anders oder aus nichts anders gewachsen und entsprossen als aus einem sauren acidischen oder corrosivischen Dampff oder deutlicher, aus einem starcken fermentirten und versauerten Nitro und Sale, samt einer durch selbe subtil resolvirten Erde. Je subtiler die Erde durch solche Acida gemacht wird, und je irdischer und fixer die Salia werden, das ist solche Acida durch die Erde, je reiners Metall bringen sie heraus. Es ist allen Natur-Kündigern bekant, daß nicht allein alle Animalia, Vegetabilia und Mineralia in ihrem Inwendigen gesaltzen sind, und nach jedes Generis & Speciei Art die Salia fixer und flüchtiger sind; also ist auch bekant, daß die Lufft nitrosisch und saltzig ist; es ist bekant, daß das Meer und alle Wasser gesaltzen sind; es ist bekant, daß die Erde in und auswendig gesaltzen. His certificatis, so wird ein Natur-Kündiger mir zulassen, daß so die Partes Microcosmi in Circumferentia gesaltzen sind, wenig oder viel, daß das Centrum Macrocosmi noch saltziger ist, weilen aus des Centri Vaporibus, wie erwiesen, die Salia auch zum Theil, und meistens die fixe, häuffig geboren und gezeuget werden.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 23 What the Generation of Minerals Is and Which Principles Constitute Them
1723 pp 167–168The disposition of animals and plants has been indicated in their own chapters. Here we shall depict that of minerals. Minerals are nothing other than, and have grown and sprung from nothing other than, a sour, acidic, or corrosive vapour—or more clearly, from strongly fermented and soured nitre and salt, together with an earth subtly dissolved by them. The subtler these acids make the earth, and the earthier and more fixed the salts—that is, those acids—become through the earth, the purer the metal they produce. All natural philosophers know that animals, plants, and minerals are internally salted, their salts being more fixed or volatile according to the nature of each genus and species. Air too is known to be nitrous and salty; the sea and all waters are salted; the earth is salted within and without. With these things established, a natural philosopher will grant that if the parts of the microcosm at the circumference contain little or much salt, the macrocosm’s centre is still saltier, since, as demonstrated, salts—especially the fixed ones—are also abundantly born and generated in part from the vapours of the centre.
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Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 23 What the Generation of Minerals Is and Which Principles Constitute Them · B1C23S008 · 1723 pp 167–168
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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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