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" till the Liquor in the Recipient appears double, or of 
<c Two Sorts. Thus far he fays, Sir Ifaac Newton was 
“ acquainted with the Procefs *. ” 
He then proceeds almoft in the very Words of the 
late Mr. Godfry [ Hanckewitz 3 as printed in the 
LrmfadHon, quoted above, p. 289. 
He concludes, by telling us, that the Eirft Part of 
the Procefs, till one comes to the Separation of the 
Two Liquors is mentioned by Cane par ins , in his 
Book de Atramentis , firft printed at Venice , and after- 
wards at London s then by the great Mr. Boyle 5 after- 
wards by Sir IJ'aac Newton: That Dr. Stahl \ and Pro- 
feflbr Hoffmann , were the firft in Germany who knew 
the firft Operation from Kunckel ; but neither of 
them brought it to Perfe&ion, or knew theEffeds of 
it f. In France M. Hornberg undertook an Experi- 
ment fomewhat analogous to this, with Sulphur and 
Oil. 
The Second Paper was communicated on the 12th 
of February 1 740-1. in Latin, and contains an ample 
Account of the whole Procefs, with Improvements 
and Additions : But as the Author in his Third Paper, 
given in Feb. 19. 1 740-1. in English, fays that that is 
the trueft and moft advantageous Procefs, I fhall pre- 
fent it to the Reader as follows, only fubjoining the 
Differences and Additions in the Second Paper, by 
way of Note or Explication. 
* So long ago as the Time of Faymund Lully this Procefs was in 
Ufe : See his Epijt. accurtatoria^ p. 327. and Weidenfeld’s Secrets of 
the Adepts,/). 251, 
f But Baron at ViaiiuLy knew the whole Procefs ; 
and it is faid Frokem/s learned it of him. 
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