For this performs wonders, namely, a good fragment from living copper.

Saturn is cold.

Moist and white, fixed with obscurity, with a certain softness and weight, from which lead draws its nature; which is cold, moist, white, obscure, fixed, and not porous. It is, however, cold in the third degree, moist in the second, and white and fixed in the second.

And note that there are four degrees in the natures of Metals, according to Hermes foreth phorm?.

Mercury is moist and cold, with dryness; nevertheless, it is white, liquid, soft, and heavy. Thus Quicksilver is, by its nature, cold in the 4th degree, moist in the 3rd, of colors in the 1st, fixed in the 3rd, and heavy in the 4th.

Venus, that is copper, is as all things hot in the 3rd [degree], dry in the 1st, porous in the 2nd, of mixed color, having common weight.

Jupiter is tin, indeed cold in the 1st degree, dry in the 1st, heavy in the 3rd, and it is non-porous, fixed, and of mixed color.

Luna, that is [Silver], is moist, cold, porous, white, heavy, and by its nature soft, because it is moved quickly; from this planet Silver has its nature. It is cold in the 3rd degree, moist in the 1st, porous in the 3rd, white indeed it is, and has weight in the 1st degree.

The Natures are to be described in common.

Likewise, it is to be noted? by what means the nature of all metals can be preserved and destroyed, and converted into the true nature, according to more and less; and it has [the power] to give, remove, and preserve whiteness and every other color, as is known in metals, etc. It also has the power and virtue of giving, preserving, and removing porosity, tem et p? to which [it can] attribute fixity; and it has [the power] to remain, to give life, to preserve, and to fashion coldness, moisture, heat, and dryness, etc., according to more and less.

Sal Ammoniac.

Know that sal ammoniac is one of these same masters, and by its nature hot in the 3rd degree, dry in the 1st, porous in the 3rd, and white in the 4th; and it has [the power] to diminish heavy weight and to reduce to a common weight, etc., for metals not having weight.

Rock Salt.

It is one of the same masters, and by its nature hot in the 1st degree, moist in the 3rd, white in the 4th, fixed in the 3rd, and non-porous; and it has [the power] to give greater weight, whence it has [the power] to give moisture, heat, fixability, and greater weight to metals not having [them], according to Hermes.

Saltpeter.

It is hot, dry, white, porous, and not fixed; and it has [the power] to attenuate heavy weight, and it is hot in the 1st, dry in the 1st, white in the 1st, porous in the 4th, and it gives weight to metals not having [it].