AXD AI.CHEMr. 



in keeping with the manners of the inhabitants of that business city, while his 

 scientific discoveries could not but please and interest them, when they found 

 it possible to give them an immediate and useful application to arts and 

 industry. From about 1530 at which period Paracelsus had already 

 quitted Bale to 1560 that is to say, five years after the death of Agricola 



Figs. 138 to 141. Furnace, Retorts, Stills, and Distilling Apparatus, as used by Chemists and 

 Alchemists of the Sixteenth Century. After an Engraving by Yriese. 



the printing-presses of Westhmer and Froben were incessantly publishing 

 Latin works, most of them illustrated with wood engravings, in which the 

 father of metallurgic science expounded the results of his long series of 

 investigations. 



Henceforth, chimiastrie, or the art of transforming be dies ar.d substances 



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