Alchemy, ancient and modern . I. 3 CO c a c < 3 To face page 37J §28] PHYSICAL ALCHEMY 37 In plates 5 and 6 we give illustrations of somecharacteristic pieces of apparatus employed by thealchemists. Plate 5, fig. A, and plate 6, fig. A, arefrom a work known as Alchemiae Gebri (1545) ;plate 5, fig. B, is from Glaubers work on Furnaces(1651) ; and plate 6, fig. B, is from a work by Dr. JohnFrench entitled The Art of Distillation (1651). passions, whereof there are also three special ones (as critical) tobe noted ; to these some add a Fourth. The first is black, which iscalled the Crows head,
Alchemy, ancient and modern . I. 3 CO c a c < 3 To face page 37J §28] PHYSICAL ALCHEMY 37 In plates 5 and 6 we give illustrations of somecharacteristic pieces of apparatus employed by thealchemists. Plate 5, fig. A, and plate 6, fig. A, arefrom a work known as Alchemiae Gebri (1545) ;plate 5, fig. B, is from Glaubers work on Furnaces(1651) ; and plate 6, fig. B, is from a work by Dr. JohnFrench entitled The Art of Distillation (1651). passions, whereof there are also three special ones (as critical) tobe noted ; to these some add a Fourth. The first is black, which iscalled the Crows head, because of its extreme blackness, whosecrepusculum sheweth the beginning of the action of the fire ofnature and solution, and the blackest midnight sheweth the perfec-tion of liquefaction, and confusion of the elements. Then the grainputrefies and is corrupted, that it may be the more apt for genera-tion. The white colour succeedeth the black, wherein is given theperfection of the first degree, and of the White Sulphur. This is
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