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LIB. II. DE METALLIS BT ALIS, QC.
141
esse, sed oprime subactae, de impli- ee Orichalcum: hinc quo plura TuNE
caex; cum argenro, cum aeri, tum
plumbo,cum ferro: sed de his infra,
cum de Cingulis merallis agam; mo-
doincerim conster, quinque tancum
modo esse merallorum species, Fer-
eum, aes, aurum, argentum, plum-
bum.
PROP. ZXV.
Extrema metalla in se innicem
converti non possunt: V. 8. plum bum,
in ferrum, Calcem immediace, nempe
terro longe plusignis inest, quam
plumbo comperac; _ plumbo plus
humoris, quam ferro inesse queat:
negHe AE EFANCIEUS AB CXETCMO, ad
extremum, nisi per medium; iImInO
ab omni hominum cogicatione hoc
tam lonse abest, ve inicer Chymi-
Cos nemo invenEUS (IC, qui hoc Fa-
ciendum Cusceperie, nec heri Pose
cosirarie: quam vis Cane incer illos
non deline, qui, ve vulod dicieur,
impossibilia cenrene; eaque Facien-
da Cuscipiane, quae Aeri minime pol.
Cunc: icaque quod ad convertionem
merallorum acrinee, (i Forre aliqua
heri porest, de qua infra; CerEUM
est, bonge Facilius immediaca con-
veuti posse in sele inuicem, quam
oppolica; v. 9. Cannum, in argen.
cum; Ferrum, in Orichalcum; gnam
incermedia, incer oppolira, maioe
eAt oppolicio; in maxima oppolicio-
ne Cunc eria incermedia; in miniima,
rnum; in media duo, Ve pacCES
Tlinc maxima oppolicio HaBCE FAMS
tum vnam combinacionem, Ferri Pein
licer de plumbi; media auas, Ferri
scilicer de orgenei, plumbi ee aeris,
minima eres, ferri ex auri, plumbi
de auri, aegenei e Orichalci; (
vero accipias combinationes imme
diacOTU, CFHME quaruOE; Ferri ee
aeris, huius de auri, huius de argen-
ei, huius se plumbi; hinc imme.
diacum Facilius connerrieur, (i ramen
vila mecalli Mecamorpholis et por
Cibilis, quam oppolitum; de OppO.
Cirum minima oppolicione, quam
media, de oppolicum media, quam
maxima; ratio parec ex dictis, qui2
minus oppolira sune inagislimilias
2c proinde minorem mucationem
illorum conversio postular; quid
clarius hinc hallucinancor Choni-
ci, qui Eydcaroreum cancummodo
DEOEDANE, DE IN ANEBM CONVEETANES
nam melius in plumbum converre-
FCHE; d hoc Scilicet defaecacum in
aegentum; hoc denique in aurumi
pari modo Ferrum in Orichaleurrs
e hoc, in aurum; (I tamen AXC AF=
ee aliqua converri polsine, quod Ca-
fercum, in plumbum; ac. aes ni. ne hicnon discurio.
nus opponitur argento, quam Fcr.
rum plumbo; immo es plumbo, et
RIGCHCUI FCTTO MaSIS OPPONUNEUT,
lune enim rres oppoticionum pra-
dus; maxima cst inter extrema, id
est, inter plumbum, ec ferrum; ii-
ducta io Lonntao instlcta snt. EI
nem ex vlu cognolcimus; metalla
nima est incer alcerna; id cA, inter aurem ad plures rlus tumanos con-
argentum de Orichaleum; media est verrimus; in arma scilicet, vala, ca-
inter alcerum exrremorum, d alceru Bales,. lamias; vestes, inOnecAS, Ca
alcernorum, permutando; v. g. incer cuas, cectorum remplorumque oen
Ferrum et argencum, inrer plumbums menta s: ad rem quoque Medicur
PROP. XXVI.
Explicari potest, ad quem finem