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...found silver-making Tincture preserved in quill pens, and the transformation of Lead into Silver achieved with it. §. 64. Concerning the silver candlesticks in Cologne, which ALBERTUS MAGNUS Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280) was a Dominican friar and polymath often legendary linked to alchemy. is said to have made through the Chemical Art, and the arts of the Baron of Stechau. §. 65. DON PETRO ARLENSIS DE SCUDALUPIS’S testimony regarding the transmutation of metals that took place. §. 66. A miner’s art of mutating Mercury into Silver. §. 67. The wall built around the Albaicín original: "Albaicinum" — the historic Moorish district of Granada, Spain. by JOSEPH BALHAGIX, King of Granada, the expenses for which are said to have been provided through Alchemy. §. 68. The examples and Adepts in Germany cited by Master JOHANNES de COLONIA, namely Master BURCARD von Kreuzberg, GEORG KRAPIT, and LUDOVICUS à NEVS. §. 69. KUNCKEL’S Johannes Kunckel (c. 1630–1703) was a celebrated chemist and glassmaker who served various royal courts. transformation of 10 Marks of Silver into Gold with a Tincture prepared according to the Saxon Vitriol processes. Vitriol refers to sulfate minerals, which were central to many alchemical operations. §. 70. Testimonies of the Art found in the manuscripts of great libraries, monasteries, and ancient monuments, etc. §. 71. Concerning the Walkenried Monastery, where BASILIUS VALENTINUS The legendary, possibly pseudonymous, author of "The Twelve Keys" and other foundational alchemical texts. is said to have lived, and the indications of the Art found there. §. 72. A curious story of an Adept from Hamburg named JESSE.

Chapter III. Concerning the Experiments from which the possibility of the transformation of metals can be inferred.

§. 1. Why certain experiences are cited.
§. 2. The most certain experiments flow from the analysis of metals original: "ex Analysi metallorum".
§. 3. Concerning different ways to resolve To "resolve" a metal meant to break it down into its constituent parts or "first matter." metals.