Of a degradation of gold made by an anti-elixir : a strange chymical narrative / [Anon].

  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Date:
1678
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Credit: Of a degradation of gold made by an anti-elixir : a strange chymical narrative / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £C that treat of thefe Arcana^ confefs that tis not every mat- :‘ter which may be juftly called the Philofophers Stone, that is able to tranfmute other Metals in vaft quantities^ <5 fince feveral of thefe Writers, (and even Lully htmfelf ) make differing orders or degrees of the Elixir, and^ac- knowledge, that a Medicine or Tinfture of the firft or lomefi order will not tranfmute above ten times its weight pyrophilus having at this part of his Difcour fe made alhort pawfe to take breath, Crattippus took occafion from his h- fenceto fay t© him, “I prefume, Pyrophilus, -I (ball be dif- ^avowed by very few of thefe Gentlemen, if I tell you e: that the company is impatient to hear the Narrative of ‘'your Experiment, and that if it do fo much as probably 66 make out the particulars you have been mentioning, you ec Wlii in likelyhood per]wade most of them, and will cer- « Z nlv oblige them all. I (hall therefore on their behalf « as well as my own, follicite you to haften to the Hifiori- acai part of a Difcourfe that is fo like to gratifie our Cu- ^he^Comoany having by their unanimous filence, teftified th Jopprobation of what had find ■, and appearing m°Zi was°onTday ^ *°I““'?! fits to my Friends, I was by a happy Providence ( for it was befidemy firft .Intention ) directed to make one to n. Iruzcnklus Foreigner, with whom a few rhatl had ,ece.ved frrm him had given me fome little acquaintance. WhiHfthis Gentleman and 1 Ter? of feveral matters, there came m to vifit him a ttrang whom I had but once feen before, and 'h?“^ in a promifeuous company, yet he addreffed himfelf to me in away that quickly fatisfied me of ^ Civility^ which he foon after alfadvd of that of his Cur -