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# Title: [De Re Metallica, Hoc Est, De Origine, Varietate, & Natura Corporum Metallicorum, Lapidum, Gemmarum, atque aliarum, quae ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad Medicinae usum deseruientium, Libri III. Autore Christophoro Encelio Salueldensi] De Re Metallica, Hoc Est, De Origine, Varietate, & Natura Corporum Metallicorum, Lapidum, Gemmarum, atq[ue] aliarum, quæ ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad Medicinæ usum deseruientium, Libri III. Autore Christophoro Encelio Salueldensi. (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 57)
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DereMetallica
talla constant. solum argentum uiuum mater, solum
sulphur pater, nihil generant: aut si quid generant,
est caducum, est quasi mola; aut veluti sunt oua illa
hopneumia, vel Zephrrina, calinarum. Deus, aut
natura, super haec duo conuncta scilicet super sul
phures arcentum uiuum. licet durisimae sint com
positionis es resolutionis, suam actionem fudit, ex
exhismetalla procreat, inspissatione humidi, per
exhalationem subtilisimarum, es conservationem
Prossarum partium: deinde mixtione sicciterrei, et
humidiviscosi; ut ita fiat substantia temperata in ui
sceribusterrae, quasi foetus in matrice; idq: multis se
culis. Ftsi autem ex his duobus principiis. sulphure
es argento uivo; quasi patre es matre, coeunti-
bus, omnia metalla procreantur; quorum multa
sunt species, es diuersae: natura tamen semperpro
Bonit es contendit ad perfectisimum metallum, sei
licet aurum. Accidentia vero diuersa supervenien-
tia, diversa transformant metalla: ex secundum pu
ritatem es impuritatem sulphuris es argentiuiuis
Pura ex impura generantur metalla; veluti ex le-
prosis paremibus leprosiprocreantur filii. Res
quae perficit aut corrumpit in metallis, est substan-
tia arvemtiviui es sulphuris. Primum igitur sub-
stantia arventi uiui ex sulphuris proportionabili-
ter commixta per longam es temperatam decoctio-
nem in visceribus terrae mundae (veluti scelus in ma
trice