Of a degradation of gold made by an anti-elixir : a strange chymical narrative

Quote of the Day

“Truly our work is perfectly performed; for that which the heat of sun is a hundred years in doing, for the generation of one metal in the bowels of the earth; our secret fire, that is, our fiery and sulphureous water, which is called Balneum Mariae, doth as I have often seen in a very short time.”

Artephius

The Secret Book of Artephius