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Ataurum ab argcnto hacratione fccernitur. Temperatura primum adie 

 ^to pluai'00 coquatur in catino cinereo ufcp dum omneplumbum exhalet, 

 atq^ eiu s bcs ccris tantummodo drachmas quinqj^aut fummum fex, in fe co 

 tineatrnam Ci plus xris in ipfa fuerit,argentum ab auro fcparatum mox rur* 

 fus cum co coniungituntalc argentij, in quo aurum ineft, hquatum uel fora 

 jnctur in globulos bacillo inferius diffiiTo agitatum,ucl in canahculum fer^: 

 reum in tundatur,& ex rcfrigcrato efficiatur tenuis bracflea. Quoniam uero 

 ratfofaciendiglobulosexauroargentofo acriorem curam dc dihoentiam 

 quam ex ah"js metaUis defiderat,eam nunc paucis exponam: id primo conri 

 ciendum eftin catinum: qui deinde operculo tegendus &f imponendus eft 

 in altcrum catinum fidiIem,modicum cinerem continentem:tum ita funt in 

 fornacc colIocandi,ut ignis, flatu follis, inipirari pofTit.Poftca eis carbones 

 circundandi funt : hisq?,ne cadant,Iapides uel lateres: mox catino fuperiori 

 carbones iniicicndi funt,&: eis pruna: fuperinriciendac:quibus rurfus carbo 

 ncs,ut catinus undiq^ eis circundetur Sc contegatur:quem finere oportet (e 

 iTiihora,uel paulo longiore fpa.cio carbonibus candetibus calefieri : d>C pro* 

 uidere,nc dcftcictibus rjfdem refrigefcanpofthscc per follis narem flatus in^ 

 fpirandus eft,ut aurum incipiat liqucfcere: mox uerfandum,&: experimen* 

 to rapto confidcrandum an liquatum Cn.Si fiicrit Hquatum, additameto ad 

 ipfumadiedo catinum rurfus confcftim opercular€conuenit,neidcxha< 



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