Literary Notices on the History of So-called Gold-making

...[regarding] On the Stability of Gold original: περι ευσταθείας του χρυσου, found in Bandini, Volume III, page 350. Bernard provided the beginning on page 163.

The Alphabetical Lexicon of Gold-Making original: Lexicon alphabeticum Chrysopoeiae is provided by Bernard, pages 120–148. These are glosses marginal or interlinear explanations of difficult words which Du Cange also cites.

Excerpts from the Alexandrian philosopher Olympiodorus’s work on Zosimus’s Chapters to Theodore can be read in Fabricius, Volume XII, page 764; on page 765 is an Anonymous Chemical Treatise original: Anonymi Syngramma Chemicum. Page 766 contains Pappus On Chemical Matters original: de re Chemica and Hierotheus On the Sacred Art original: de sacra Arte.

Zosimus on Apparatus and Furnaces original: περι οργανων και καμινων and his fragment On the Divine Water original: περι του θείου ύδατος were noted by Lambecius, Book VI, page 405.

Mr. Ameilhon <em>) Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, Vol. 46, page 501. Paris 1793. 4. Göttingen Gazette*, 1793, page 1808. demonstrated that while the ancients already knew of the use of lead for the melting and refining of gold, they did not apply it in a fully efficient manner. Geber The Latinized name of Jabir ibn Hayyan, an influential 8th-century chemist whose works bridge ancient and medieval science taught this application more effectively. Even in his time, cupels|Shallow, porous vessels used in assaying to separate precious metals from impurities like lead original: Kapellen were prepared just as they are today. However, the ancients were not familiar with the "moist separation" <em></em>) It was not until the year 1400 that the Venetians used parting water|Nitric acid, used to dissolve silver and leave gold behind original: Scheidewasser for this purpose. of silver from gold, though they did know cementation|A dry refining process where gold is heated with salts to remove base metals. Yet, during this process, they allowed the silver to be lost because they did not know how to extract it from the slag The stony waste matter left over after smelting. The white gold original: λευκος χρυσος, or the "white gold" of Herodotus—