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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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Dere Metallica
bisaerarius, es chalcitis etiam prima Penificatio
ne. Et omnia quae Graeci de pyrite scripsere, Ara-
bes sub marchasitae nomine in suum linsuam transtie
lerunt.
Dicitur auté pyrites, quia ex eo plurimum ignis
excuditur: unde jam a nostris etiam generalinomi-
nevocatur seiiersteym. es illo utuntur milites iam
ad instammandas bombardas. Deinde vel dicitur
porites, quodieneus persaepe ipsi sit color. Alias d
Germanis pyrites simpliciter uocatur hyB, 0d lup
ferstenn, tuxssereri. quavis haec nomina magis sunt
Generaliu.
sunt autem es reperiuntur in nostris sodinisua
riae species prritis: nempe prrites coloris argentei,
fere aurei, prorsus aurei, salenae similis, cineracei
coloris, item es ferri coloris, es c. de quibus nunc or
dine agemus.
DE PYRTTE
COTORIS
argentei, Caput X V.
Rima species pritis reperitur in nostris fodi
nis, coloris arcentei, quae a metallicis dicitur
eyn Wvasser lyß, od Zveisser hyB. Estq; Pyrites
argentarius, coloris arsentei, ex quo excoquitur ar
centum, ut in valle est uidere. Plinius li. 36. Cap. 19.
nisi fallor, huiusmentionem facu: sed nesciuit ex eo
excoqui argentum, ut es veteres omnes. Restamen
ex illo coqui, proculdubio scivit: sicuti Serapio ex
marchasita