On Alchemy (1541) - Page 18

Chapter		Folio
IIII.	First section, on the preparations of intermediate minerals. original: "mediorum mineralium"; substances like salts, vitriols, and alums that are neither metals nor volatile spirits.
		Folio 210
V.	Short preface to the second section, on the purification of spirits. In alchemy, "spirits" refers to volatile substances such as mercury, sulfur, and arsenic.
		213
VI.	On the preparation of Sulfur.	214
VII.	On the preparation of Arsenic.	215
VIII.	On the preparation of Quicksilver. original: "Argenti uiui"; mercury.	in the same place.
IX.	On the preparation of Marcasite.	216
X.	On the preparation of Tutia. Zinc oxide.	in the same place
XI.	Short preface to the third section, on the preparation of bodies. original: "corporum"; refers to the seven traditional metals.
		217
XII.	On the preparation of Saturn. Lead.	in the same place
XIII.	On the preparation of Jove. Tin.	in the same place
XIIII.	On the preparation of Mars. Iron.	219
XV.	On the preparation of Venus. Copper.	in the same place
XVI.	Short preface to the fourth section, on medicines. Alchemical elixirs or tinctures intended for transmutation.	221
XVII.	On white medicines for Jove and Saturn. Elixirs designed to turn tin and lead into silver.	in the same place
XVIII.	On solar medicines for Jove and Saturn. Elixirs designed to turn tin and lead into gold.	223
XIX.	On white medicines for Venus and Mars. Elixirs designed to turn copper and iron into silver.	224
XX.	On red medicines for Venus and Mars. Elixirs designed to turn copper and iron into gold.	in the same place
XXI.	On the medicine of the third order for the white. The most concentrated and effective class of elixir for creating silver.	225
XXII.	On the Solar medicine of the third order. The most powerful class of elixir for creating gold.	226
XXIII.	On the waters of solution, and other softening agents. original: "inceratiuis"; substances that bring a material to a waxy, meltable consistency.	227

The end of the Invention of Truth.

OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE contained in the individual chapters of the Book of Furnaces.


I.	Preface dividing the Book of Furnaces into four parts.	229
	In the first part, concerning the methods of operation, these things are contained.
II.	On the Calcining furnace. A furnace used for calcination, which is the reduction of a metal to powder through heat and oxidation.	230
III.	On the Subliming furnace. A furnace used to turn a solid substance into vapor, which then collects as a solid in the upper part of the vessel.	231
IIII.	On the Distilling furnace.	233
V.	On the Descending furnace. A furnace used for "distillation by descent," where the liquid or vapor is forced to move downward into a receiver.	234