PROSPERITY

OF GERMANY

Embracing the method and reason for condensing or concentrating

minerals by means of nitre, and for changing them into metallic

and better bodies.

For the grace and benefit of those in the Fatherland, and of those studious in the metallic arts.

Written in German, and published for the world

JOHANN RUDOLPH GLAUBER.

And now rendered into Latin.

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AMSTERDAM,

At the shop of JOHANNES JANSSONIUS,

In the Year of our Lord 1659.