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2 How Nature Destroys Animals
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1723 pp 218Denn wenn einer nur wohlgemästete Maden nimmt, sperret solche in ein Glaß und giebt ihnen ein wenig stinckend Fleisch, daß sie Nahrung haben, setzet es in die Lufft, doch daß das Glaß mit einem durchlöcherten Pappier vermacht, und so ers in die Sonne setzet, wird er in kurtzen Tagen und Stunden sehen, wie es aus den Maden Mücken oder in deren Geschlecht wächset und verwandelt wird. Solches kommt zum theil von dem animalischen, theils von dem flüchtigen her, das fixere Theil aber, so nicht flüchtig und volatilisch ist, wird zu Wasser und Erde, aus welchem ein Salpeter und Saltz ausgelauget werden kan. Diese restirende Theile, als Salpeter und Saltz, befinden sich in jedem subjecto, so es in seine äusserste reduction gehet, das volatilische rauchet und gehet in forma vaporis in die Lufft aus, um da chaotisch zu werden,
The Golden Chain of Homer: 2 How Nature Destroys Animals
1723 pp 218For if someone takes well-fattened maggots, shuts them in a glass, and gives them a little stinking meat for nourishment, then sets the glass in the open air with its mouth closed by perforated paper, and places it in the sun, within a few days and hours they will see gnats, or creatures of that kind, grow and develop from the maggots. This comes partly from the animal principle and partly from the volatile. The more fixed part, which is neither fleeting nor volatile, becomes water and earth, from which saltpetre and salt can be leached. These remaining parts, saltpetre and salt, are found in every subject when it reaches its final reduction. The volatile smokes away and goes out into the air as vapour, to become chaotic there;
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Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 2 How Nature Destroys Animals · B2C02S002 · 1723 pp 218
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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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