111 results filtered with: Distillation
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Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
Reference: 35429i
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The complete distiller. Containing, I. The method of performing the various processes of distillation, with descriptions of the several instruments, the whole doctrine of fermentation, the manner of drawing spirits from malt, raisins, molasses, sugar, &c. and of rectifying them, with instructions for imitating, to the greatest perfection, both the colour and flavour of French brandies. II. The manner of distilling all kinds of simple waters from plants, flowers, &c. III. The method of making all the compound waters and rich cordials so largely imported from France and Italy, as, likewise all those now made in Great Britain : to which are added, accurate descriptions of the several drugs, plants, flowers, fruits, &c. used by distillers, and instructions for choosing the best of each kind the whole delivered in the plainest manner for the use both of distillers and private families illustrated with a plate / by A. Cooper.
Cooper, A. (Ambrose)Date: 1810- Books
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The art of distillation, or a treatise of the choicest spagyrical preparations, experiments, and curiosities, performed by way of distillation ... together with the description of the choicest furnaces and vessels used by ancient and modern chymists, also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments .. and of the anatomy of gold and silver. With the chiefest preparations and curiosities therof; together with their vertues ... / By John French ... To which is added in this fourth impression. Sublimation and calcination ... As also, The London-distiller, exactly and truly shewing the way (in words at length, and not in mysterious characters and figures) to draw all sorts of spirits and strong-waters; together with their virtues, and other excellent waters.
French, John, 1616-1657.Date: 1667
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Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle (?) after J. van der Straet.
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.Reference: 26686iPart of: Nova reperta
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Miscellanea Alchemica XIX
Date: Early 16th centuryReference: MS.522
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A new booke of destillatyon of waters, called the Treasure of Euonymus, containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt formes to prepare & distill medicines, for the conservation of helth: as quintessence, aurum potabile, hyppocras, aromaticall wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes ... Whereunto are joyned the formes of sondry apt furnaces, and vessels ... / Translated ... out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.Date: 1565- Archives and manuscripts
Brande, William Thomas (1788-1866), F.R.S., chemist
Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866Date: 1825-1878Reference: MSS.6827-6828- Pictures
Chemistry: distilling apparatus. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1805, after W. Thomson.
Thomson, William, 1943-2017.Date: 2 May 1802Reference: 47784i- Archives and manuscripts
Household manual and recipe book
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.7893- Books
La description des nouveaux fourneaux philosophiques. Ou l'art distillatoire. Par le moyen duquel sont tirez les esprits, huiles, fleurs, & autres medicaments, par une voye aisée & avec grand profit, des vegetaux, animaux, & mineraux, avec leur usage, tant dans la chymie, que dans la medecine : mis en lumiere en faveur des amateurs de la verité / par Jean Rodolphe Glauber ; et Traduit en nostre langue par le Sieur du Teil.
Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.Date: 1659- Books
L'art du distillateur des eaux-de-vie et des esprits, dans lequel on a donné la description des nouveaux appareils de distillation / [Louis Sébastien Lenormand].
Lenormand, Louis Sébastien, 1757-1837.Date: 1817
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Chemistry: various vessels for distillation. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 47824i- Archives and manuscripts
M0011826: Reproduction of a woodcut of a continuous burning type distillation furnace with four stills from Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, 1512
Date: April 1951Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/105/28Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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M0008360: Distilling oven with conical condenser heads
Date: 30 October 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/72/90Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
Chemistry: a vessel on a furnace distilling into a barrel. Woodcut after M. Augusti.
Reference: 47786i- Books
Introitus apertus ad artem distillationis, or, The whole art of distillation : practically stated, and adorned with all the new modes of working now in use. In which is contained the way of making spirits ... To which is added the true and genuin [sic] way of preparing powers by three noble menstruums, sc. a purified sal armoniack, the volatile salt of tartar, and sal panaristos ... together with their virtues and dose. Illustrated with copper sculptures / By W. Y-Worth.
Y-Worth, W. (William)Date: 1692
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Mémoire sur la meilleure manière de construire les alambics et fourneaux propres a la distillation des vins pour en tirer les eaux-de-vie / Par M. Baumé, du Collège de pharmacie de Paris, de l'Académie royale des sciences & de celle de Madrid ; ouvrage qui a obtenu le prix sur la question relative à cette matière proposée par la Société libre d'emulation.
Baumé, Antoine, 1728-1804.Date: 1778- Books
Iacobi Bessoni De absoluta ratione extrahendi olea, & aquas è medicamentis simplicibus: : accepta olim à quodam empirico, postea uero ab eodem Bessono locupletata, & rationibus experime[n]tis[que] confirmata, liber.
Besson, Jacques (Mathematician)Date: Anno Do. 1559
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Chemistry: a multi-tiered furnace for distillation. Woodcut after M. Augusti.
Reference: 47790i
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Medical miscellany in German and Latin
Written by Gabriel von LebensteinDate: Late 15th CenturyReference: MS.283- Ephemera
Puralis : health : pure distilled aerated water / The Pure Water Company Limited.
Pure Water Company.Date: [1889]- Archives and manuscripts
M0011832: Reproduction of a page from a Greek manuscript showing early forms of distillation apparatus including alembics (alchemical stills) with one or more receivers
Date: 1951Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/105/34Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A Chinese (?) man working with distilling apparatus. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
Date: 23 May 1812Reference: 25754i- Archives and manuscripts
Swatz, Dominicus de
Swatz, Dominicus deDate: c. 1500Reference: MS.766- Pictures
Chemistry: a furnace and various distilling vessels. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 47822i