By Lapidus
This publication, via a training alchemist, is the 1st to take a totally actual method of the technological know-how of alchemy whereas explaining the appropriate chemical and metallurgical equivalents of the phrases utilized by the alchemists from the center a while in the course of the Renaissance to the overdue 17th century. those should not only conjectures or theories, yet genuine special research of a couple of texts which were both quoted in complete or systematically decreased in size through the removal of inappropriate and deceptive fabric Thei paintings follows within the footsteps of Artephius, Pontanus, and Ripley explaing the true mystery of the Sophic fireplace, the hidden references to antimony, the genuine Nature of the golf green Lion and copulation of the pink guy and his White spouse. The final bankruptcy covers functional experimentation and the appendices contain a whole checklist of the apparatus wanted for the operation.
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