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Liber TI.
4. Vormiothasaa est Prites, sege. Vel atra
menium niorum est, ibi omnia haec metalla fiunt:
calchanu, chalcitis, misy, sory, melameria, diphry-
Des, scilicet natiua. es omnia haec denierant etiâ, e
referunt ita quasi primam matrem, seG: vel atramen
cum nierum, id est poritem, velmarchasitam. Uta ui
des, optime lector, naturam optimam es doctisima
esse chimistam, nec adeo stultam, ut iam nostrisunt
chimistae (de indoctis loquor, qui aureos pollicemur
montes, cum uix ipsi stramineos praestant.) FTam
Pescimitatores naturae appellant, cum nec minimu
imitari queant in natura, nedum ex cupro aurum,
ex plumbo argentum facere, exstercore equino sca
rabeum, ex papilione crucam: es econtra, ex musca
vermem, transformare quod poterint. Vrmahisuis
praeparationibus, mundatione, altenuatione, sub-
ciliatione, diversificatione, calcinatione, sublima-
tione descensione, solutione, distillatione, coaou-
latione fixatione, es ceratione (his enimtitulisne-
Icio quid promittunt) nontam ex tauro apes, quam
exapibus econtratauros facerent. Ethis indoctis sis
ribus delectantur nunc viri principes, quitales e
medio potiustollere deberent. Caeterum de orionne
horum metallorum in principio libri 2. ceimus.
DE AVRTETGMENTO, Cap. VII.
Vripiementum, arsenicum luteum, d Cier-
manis, eold selb operment, hiltenrauchuo
catur.