630 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Venetian Glass. 



In cupellation 474 



Venice. 



Glass- factories 592 



Parting with nitric acid 461 



Scale of weights 264 



Ventilation 200 — 212; 121 



With bellows 207—210 



With fans 203—207 



With linen cloths 210 



With windsails 200 — 203 



Verdigris 440; 1; 110; 222 



In cementation 454; 457 



Indication of ore 116 



In making nitric acid 440 



In parting gold from copper 464 



Vermilion. 



Adulteration with red-lead 232 



Poisonous 215 



Villacense Lead 239; 239 



Vinegar. 



Use in breaking rocks 119; 118 



Use in cleansing quicksilver 426 



Use in roasting matte 349 



Use in softening ore 231 



Virgula divina (see Divining Rod). 



Vitriol 571; 572; 403; 222; 1 



In assaying 237 — 238 



In cementation 454; 454 



Indication of copper 116 



In making nitric acid 439 — 440 



In roasted ores 350 



In sal artificiosus 463 



Native Ill 



Native blue 109 



Native white 113 



Red 274 



White 454 



Volcanic Eruptions 595 



Washers 78 



Washing Ore [see also Concentration, 



Screening Ore, etc.) 300 — 31 



Water-Bags 157—159; 198 



Water-Buckets 



Water-Wheels 187; 283; 



Water-Tank, under Blast Fur- 

 naces 



Wealth 



Wedges 



Weights... 260—264; 616—617; 



Weisser Kis 



Werckschuh 



Westphalia. 



Smelting lead ore 



Spalling ore 



Wheelbarrows 



Whims 



White-Lead 440; 354; 



White Schist 234; 390; 



Winding .\ppliances [see Hauling 

 Appliances). 



Windlasses 160 ; 



Windlass Men 



Winds. 



Greek and Roman names 



Sailors" names 



Winds (winze) 



Windsails 



Winzes 



Wittenberg, Capitulation of 



Wizards. 



Divining rods 



Workmen 



WOUGHS 



Zaffre 



Zeitz 



Zinc [see also Cadmia, and Cobalt). 



Historical notes 408—410; 354 



Minerals 112—113 



Zinck (see Zinc). 



Zinc Oxides 113; 354 



Zinc Sulphate (see Vitriol). 



Zincum [see Zinc). 



Zoll 617; 78 



Zwickau VI. 



Zwitter 110 



INDEX TO PERSONS AND 

 AUTHORITIES. 



Note. — The numbers in heavy type refer to the Text ; 

 those in plain type to the Footnotes, .Appendices, etc. 



PAGE 



AcosTA, Joseph De 298 



Aeschylus. 



Amber 35 



Aesculapius. 



Love of gold 9 



Africanus (alchemist) XXVII ; XXVIII 



Agatharchides. 



Cupellation 4B5 



Egyptian gold mining 279; 391; 399 



Fire-setting 118 



.Agathocles. 



Money 21 



.Agathodaemon (alchemist) 



XXVII; XXVIII 



Agricola, Daniel 606 



Agricola, Georg (a preacher at 



Freiberg) 606 



page 

 Agricola, Georgius. 



Assaying 220 



Biography V — XVI 



Founder of Science XIV 



Geologist XII; 46; 63 



Interest in Go//sgaa6 mine VII; 74 



.Mineralogist XII; 108; .594 



Paracelsus compared with XIV 



Real name V 



Works Appendix A 



See also : 



Berinaiinus. 



De AnimantibiLS. 



De Natura eorum, etc. 



D* Natura Fossilium. 



De Oriu et Causis. 



De Peste. 



