Basil Valentine Revived or the Shining Star of Alchemy

Preface.

revelations; but if one refutes these fundamentally, they say: Why does he not elaborate them for himself? They generally keep as a cloak: that they do not have the necessary costs to work out the process, which, together with their other intrigues, are all rotten fish, since, according to the statement of all authors, no great costs are required for it.

We have divided the work into a special introduction, four sections, and a conclusion:

The introduction contains a short and true test that chemistry is a true and not a deceitful art, and what is required for it; to assert this, we have chosen the following saying from the TRACT. RADIX CHYMIÆ Root of Chemistry.

The first section deals with: 1. The matter in general (materia in genere). 2. Metals, salt, and minerals in general. 3. Common and philosophical metals, salt, and