Chemical Investigation of the Difference Between Philosophical and Mineral Antimony, as well as Philosophical and Common Mercury

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From this truthful description of the Antimonium Philosophorum philosophers' antimony and common mineral Antimonium, as well as the properties of both, a sensible person will easily be able to see the difference and judge that it is not the Vulgare common/ordinary that is useful for the philosophical work, but the philosophical one. For the latter is the beginning of all mineral nature, is living and active, while the former is coagulated by nature, as already said, as a mineral and has no more active power, but is dead. Indeed, from this philosophical Antimonium, Saturn, or Plumbum sapientum lead of the wise, the true Philosophi philosophers have, according to the content of their writings, with the continuation of gradual cooking