xxx. The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



early nineteenth century did honour to 

 the philosopher of Erfurt. At the same 

 time, there will be some satisfaction in 

 citing the panegyric of a French scien- 

 tist, Louis Figuier. 



" Every one," says the author of 

 VAlchimie et les Alchimistes, " is 

 acquainted with the remarkable dis- 

 coveries relative to Antimony which 

 are contained in the celebrated work of 

 Basil Valentine, Currus Triumphalis 

 Antimonii. The German Alchemist had 

 so thoroughly investigated the properties 

 of this metal, scarcely indicated before 

 him, that we find many facts stated in 

 his treatise which in our day have been 

 brought forward as modern discoveries. 

 In the same work Basil Valentine speci- 

 fies many other chemical preparations of 

 the first importance, such as spirit of 

 salt, or our hydro-chloric acid, derived 

 after our own manner from marine salt 

 and oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid). He 



nating gold, many mercurial preparations, empyreumatic 

 carbonate of ammonia, claimed as his own by Sylvius 

 Deleboe, etc." Biographie Universelle. 



