Some experiments concerning mercury / by J.H. Boerhaave ; Translated from the latin, communicated by the author to the Royal Society.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.
Date:
1734
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Credit: Some experiments concerning mercury / by J.H. Boerhaave ; Translated from the latin, communicated by the author to the Royal Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *4 ] roughly purged of that foreign Ble- mifti or Foulnefs, then it would be¬ come liquid, metallic, moft weighty, and moft Ample; neither by any Art or Nature divifible into different Things; and in which the vivified Seed of every diflolved Metal wou’d moft perfectly multiply itfelf; in which the Gold itfelf diffolving, be¬ ing cherifh’d and maturated, wou’d be the laft fo much fought for, and fo much celebrated Reward of the Labour, When I found that the chief Per- fons of the Art agreed in thefe Prin¬ ciples for a long Time, I have en¬ deavour’d to learn by Experience, by what Artifice a pure unmix’d Mer¬ cury might be obtained ? Whether it cou’d be extracted out of Metals ? What is that other Part of the Metal that is apt to force under its Yoak the free Quickfilver, or Mercury ? I am glad to give an Account of what I have