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Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān · 1545

[...ratiuis] continues from previous page: on the] waters of solution, and other incerations
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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. 184
In the first part, on the modes of operating, these things are contained.
II. On the calcining furnace. 185
III. On the subliming furnace. ibid
IIII. On the distilling furnace. 187
V. On the descending furnace. 188
VI. On the melting furnace. 189
VII. On the solving furnace. 190
VIII. On the athannor a self-feeding furnace, or fixing furnace. 191
In the second part, on the things to be prepared, these things are contained.
IX. On the preparation of spirits, mineral intermediates, and alums. 193
X. On the calcination of Jupiter. 194
XI. On the calcination of Saturn. ibid
XII. On the calcination of Venus. ibid
XIII. On the calcination of Mars. ibid
XIIII. On the calcination of mineral intermediates. ibid
XV. On the ablutions of burnt bodies. 195
XVI. On the incerations of washed calces powders produced by calcination. ibid
XVII. On the reduction of calces into a solid mass. ibid
XVIII. On the solutions of prepared bodies, and on their certain conjunctions, with a certain proportion, so that they may appear better, with luster, after their reductions. 196
In the third part, on perfecting and altering [substances], these things are contained.
XIX. On the mode of perfecting of the third order. 198
XX. On the regulation of Jupiter and Saturn. 199
XXI. On the regulation of Venus and Saturn. 200
XXII. On the regulation of Mars. ibid
XXIII. On the regulation of Luna. 201
XXIIII. On the regulation of Mercury. ibid
XXV. On the ferment of Luna for unleavened bread a metaphor for white tincture. 202
XXVI. On the ferment of Sol for the red. ibid
XXVII. On the ferment of the ferment, as much white as red upon mercury. ibid
XXVIII. Recapitulation of the author's experiments. 203
XXIX. Mercurial games. 206
XXX. Citrination of Luna. ibid
OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN the Mirror of Alchemy by the most learned man Roger Bacon.
Preface. 208