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214 NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
Duenech Allegory appears in the Theatrum chemicum, 4 vols. (Ursel,
1602), vol. 3, pp. 756–57.
2. Duenech Allegory, as translated in de Jong, Atalanta Fugiens, op. cit.,
211.
3. See for instance John French, The Art of Distillation: Or, A Treatise of
the Choicest Spagyrical Preparations Performed by way of Distillation
(London: Richard Cotes, 1651); Philip Ulstadt, Coelvm
Philosophorvm sev de Descretis naturæ (Strassburg: Johann
Grüninger, 1528); Giambattista della Porta, De distillatione lib. x
(Rome: Ex Typographia Reu. Cameras Apostolicæ, 1608); and
M.Déjean, Traité raisonné de la distillation, ou, La distillation réduite
en principes, 4th ed. (Paris: Chez Bailly, 1777).
4. Nicholas Tiho Mirov, Composition of Gum Turpentine of Pines
(Washington, DC: Department of Agriculture, 1961).
5. For more on plant alchemy, see Manfred Junius, Praktisches
Handbuch der Pflantzen-Alchemie (Interlaken, Switzerland, 1982),
171–218, discussing Baro Urbigerus, Aphorismi Urbigerani, Or
Certain Rules…To Which Are Added, Three Ways of Preparing the
Vegetable Elixir or Circulatum minus… (London: Henry Fairborne,
1690). The translation is Urbigerus’s own; he also published the
book in German (Erfurt: Johann Caspar Birckner, 1691); Junius’s
book appeared in English as A Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy,
translated by Leone Muller (New York: Inner Traditions
International, Ltd., 1985), and also (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts
Press, 1993).
6. This recipe is given in George Ripley, Bosome-Book (15th c.) in
Collectanea Chemica, edited by Christopher Love Morley and
Theodorus Muykens (London: William Cooper, 1684), 101–24.
Collectanea chemica also appeared as Collectanea chimica leydensia
(Leiden and Frankfurt, 1693); it was reprinted, with abridgements
and additions, as Collectanea chymica, Being certain Select Treatises on
Alchemy and Hermetic Medicine (London: J. Elliott and Co., 1893),
which was in turn reprinted several times, for example (Edmonds,
WA: Alchemical Press, 1991). The practical procedure is by
Lawrence Principe (personal communication, 1991).
It takes a day and requires:
lead oxide, PbO 8 g.
glacial acetic acid, CH 3CO 2H 50 ml
potassium nitrate, KNO 3 12.5 g.
“Take 50 g. of lead oxide ... and pour over it 50 ml of water
and 50 ml of glacial acetic acid. Stir or swirl occasionally