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ANAPPENDIX.
Two years since I began to publish my new invented furnaces where also there was mention made of some secrets, which though I thought never to divulge; yet nevertheless I underwent many troubles for the communicating of them. Wherefore I beseech every body that they would no more create troubles to me or to themselves by their petitions or writings, because for certain causes I shall for the future communicate nothing but those things which follow. Expect therefore patiently the time of another Edition, when these five parts shall come forth more corrected and enlarged, and many most choice secrets shall be communicated, which were for certain causes omitted in the first Edition.
I shall now God willing communicate those things which follow, yet upon this condition (because many are such, that by means thereof thou maist with a good conscience, without hurt to thy neighbour, through Gods blessing, get great riches) that thou be mindful of the poor, and a good steward of riches got honestly, and use them to the glory of God and the eternal salvation of thy soul.
The preparation of corn, as of Barley, Wheat, Oates,&c.of Apples, Pears, Cherries,&c., where fermentation being made they do yield by way of distillation a pure spirit very like to the spirit of wine without great costs; of the remainders whereof if the matter were corn, may be made good beer, or vinegar; but if the matter were any kinde of fruit, as apples, pears, a very good drink like to wine, so that by this means thou maist find a double profit, by which thou maist not only have whereby to live honestly, but also to lay up for thy heirs.
An excellent and wholesome drink of fruit, and corn, that is durable and like to Spanish, French, and Rhenish wine.
A distillation of theAqua vitæof certain vulgar things not costly and like to theAqua vitæof French and Rhenish wine.
A preparation of sugar like to the Western, and of tartar like to the natural Rhenish, out of honey and not costly; where one pound of sugar doth not exceed the price of eight or ten stivers, and a pound of tartar, that doth not exceed the price of two stivers.
A peculiar purification of crude tartar without loss, and a reduction of it into great crystals not costly, so as the price of one pound doth not exceed six stivers.
The taking away of the ingrateful tast and odour of honey so as afterwards there may be made from thence a certain goodAqua vitæretaining no more the smell and taste of honey: also a very good Mead or Methegline like unto very good wine, withwhich the same things may be done as with the best wine.
A preparation of Mead out of raisins, great and small, very like in all things to Spanish wine; out of which also is made a very good vinegar without great costs.
A preparation of wine and good vinegar of wild grapes.
Durable and wholesome drinks of gooseberries, barberries, mulberries, strawberries, and the like.
The mending of troubled acid musty wines,&c.
The preparation of a very good vinegar out of certain vegetables which are to be found every where, which may be compared to that which comes out of France, and in a great abundance, whereof two rundlets of nine Gallons do not exceed the price of one Royal. [A Royal or Imperial is 4s.6d.]
The promoting of the ripening of wines of the cold countries of Europe (a very few that are very cold being exempted) that they may yield very good sweet and durable wines, whereas otherwise they could come to no maturity, being very like to those which hotter countries yield.
A certain secret way of carrying wines from mountainous places, where carts, ships, and other commodities are wanting, where the carrying of ten pipes, doth not exceed the price of one pipe otherwise carryed, so that by this means, outlandish wines may be brought to any place with great profit.
A very good and easie preparation of verdegrease out of copper, whereof one pound doth not exceed the price of six stivers.
A new and compendious distillation of vinegar, of which a rundlet of eighteen gallons doth not exceed the price of half a ryal, with which many things may be done, especially the crystallizing of verdegrease, of which one pound prepared after this manner, doth not also exceed the price of half a Royal.
A compendious and very easie way of distilling a very strong spirit of urin, and that without any cost and pains, so that twenty or thirty pints shall not exceed the price of one royal, being very excellent in medicine, Alchimy and Mechanique affairs, by the help whereof a most beautiful blew vitriol may be made out of copper, being very profitable in Alchimy and medicine, making silver so fusible, that by the help thereof, glass vessels, as basons, dishes, and candlesticks,&c.may be so guilded as to be taken for silver.
A way of distilling the spirit of salt in a great quantity, and that with small costs, so that one pound thereof will scarce exceed the price of six stivers being very excellent in Alchymy, Medicine, and other Arts; especially for the doing of these following things,viz.the separation of gold from silver without hurt to the Cups or other things, also the solution and separation of gold mixt with copper and silver by the force of precipitation, where theMenstruumthat is preserved, may again be used for the same uses, which separation is the easiest of all other humid separations, whereby gold is reduced to the highest degree.
The separation of volatile sparkling gold out of sand,&c.very profitable, without which otherwise it could never be separated, neither by the help of Washing, nor by Mercury, nor by the force of Melting.
An artificial secret, and hitherto unheard of, trying of stubborn Metals, finding out their Contents, which otherwise could not be found out: for oftentimes there are found golden mines, which are stubborn, in which nothing is found out by the common way, and therefore they are left unlaboured in, and sometimes elsewhere, where there are not found Mines of Metals, there are found other things, as white and red talc, that yield nothing, being tryed the common way, or very little, all which yet abound with gold and silver, which may be separated this way.
A new, and unheard of compendious way of melting Mines in great plenty, where, in the space of one day, by the heat of a certain separating Furnace, more may be melted than by the common way in the space of eight daies, where not onely costs are saved, but also is hope of greater gain.
Another way for the better proving of things melted, and a new way of separating silver from lead.
A very speedy way of melting Minerals, whereby they are melted in great plenty, by the help of Pit-coals in defect of other coals.
The fixation of Minerals, Sulphureous, Arsenical, Antimonial; and others that are volatile, which cannot be retained and melted by the force of fire, by the help of a certain peculiar furnace with a grate, so that afterwards they may by infusion yield gold and silver.
The getting of gold and silver, that sparkles, and is rarified, out of sand, pure clay, flints,&c.by the help of melting.
The separation of gold lying hid in baser minerals and metals most profitable, which cannot be done the common way.
A very quick Artificial and easie separation of melted gold and silver by the help of fusion, so that in the space of one day, by the help of one furnace, some hundreds of Marks may be separated with far less costs and labour, than by the common way by cement andAqua fortis.
The reduction of elaborated gold, of chains and other ornaments unto the highest degree; also the separation of gold from guilded silver, by the help of fusion, by which means a hundred marks are more easily separated than twenty of the common way.
A certain way whereby more silver is separated from lead then by the Copper.
A separation of good gold from any old iron, which although it be not a labour of great gain, yet it is sufficient for those who are contented with a few things.
A separation of gold and silver, from tin or copper, according to more or less. The maturation of mines, so that they may afterwards be able to yield more gold and silver, then by the common way, also the separation of gold and silver out of Antimony, Arsenick, andAuripigmentum.
The separation of the external sulphur ofVenus, that the SonCupidmay be born.
The separation of silver from the cuples, into which it enters in the tryal without melting or any other labour or cost.
The preparation of divers earthen things to be done in any part of the world, like to the Porcellan, that hold fire and retain spirits.
A certain Allome exalting and fixing any colour, especially requisit for scarlet and other pretious colours, with a certain perpetual cauldron, that doth not alter colours, and is not costly.
A making of colours for painters, as of purplegum, ultra-marine, not costly, and especially of that rich white, never before seen, like to Pearl and Margarites; also a peculiar colouring of gold and silver.
To conclude, I refer the Reader unto the Residue of my Books, that Treat of those Secrets more plainly; which I am resolved shortly to put forth.
Those Secrets are all openly taught in the following Treatises, as in theExplication of Miraculum Mundi,Apology against Farner,Prosperity of Germany,&c.
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