In the Roth-Scholtz Library

Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (1687–1736) was a prominent Nuremberg bookseller and bibliographer who compiled vast collections of alchemical literature.

§. 4. BASILIUS VALENTINUS’S The legendary, possibly pseudonymous, 15th-century Benedictine monk regarded as a master of antimony and the Great Work. Anatomy of Metals original: "Anatomia metallorum" according to Mr. FRIEDRICH CLINGE.

§. 5. The decomposition of gold, etc., according to ABRAHAM RIESE’S process with mercurial solvents original: "☿almenstruis" — "menstrua" were solvents used in alchemy to dissolve solids..

§. 6. Mechanical experience in wire-drawing and gilding.

§. 7. What can be inferred from the coloring of the water, and how Dr. MÜLLER is to be understood in this regard.

§. 8. A small piece of native sulfur original: "selbst-gewachsenen Schwefels" — sulfur found in its pure, natural state rather than extracted from ore. that transmuted silver into gold.

§. 9. A certain aqua fortis Nitric acid; literally "strong water," used to part gold from silver. matures much silver into gold.

§. 10. A chemist in Amsterdam transmutes mercury original: "☿um" into silver with sulfur.

§. 11. A certain spirit of salt Hydrochloric acid. matures lead into gold and silver.

§. 12. Someone was able to transmute silver into gold in three hours with common salt.

§. 13. Fixed Silver original: "Luna fixa" — silver that has been chemically treated so that it no longer dissolves in nitric acid, thus "mimicking" gold. can be made through salt cementation A process of heating a metal in contact with a powdered reagent..

§. 14. Gold is obtained from copper using sulfur.

§. 15. Baron SCHRÖDER’S two experiments with mercury sublimate original: "☿us sublimatus" — corrosive sublimate. and cinnabar Mercury sulfide..

§. 16. Silver becomes gold with the soul original: "anima" — the vital essence or "tincture" extracted from a metal. extracted from gold.

§. 17. The sublimate made from silver with sal ammoniac original: "Salmiac" transmutes silver original: "Lunam" into gold.

§. 18. CONDRESYANI’S or BASILIUS VALENTINUS’S experiment to make gold from mercury and silver.

§. 19. LAURENTIUS MEISNER’S precipitate from silver into gold.

§. 20. Two remarkable experiments with the sublimate of tin original: "♃is" and copper original: "♀is"; likewise with the mercury of tin and gold from aqua regia A mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids capable of dissolving gold. according to GLAUBER Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604–1670), a famous German-Dutch alchemist and chemist known for "Glauber's Salt.".

§. 21. Metallic spirits and gilding prove the possibility of the Art The "Art" refers to Alchemy or the transmutation of metals..