Paracelsus of the Transmutation of Metals #267972

Salts Corrofives and whatfoet er things are calcined, are coagulatedby Fire, and 'then by the coldnefs of the Air ware refolved 1nt'o Liquor, vqiater. Or' Oyl,1n a moifi place, as a or in t eair, being. Ed uponamar fioneox Glafs: But fat amulp hureous. Things are dif {oh/ed by the heat of the Fire and that which thepire ydifl'olveth by heat the [ante is coagu lated; zhy: the coldnefs of the Air; Ofifthecon trary, that which is. Difl'olved by the coldnefs of the A11: i's Coagulat'ed by the heir of the Fire. Nate here the Reafon wherefore we calltbe Medici which feems to op pofe and Contradi& the Opinion of {nine Philofophers: for they will have it to be hot indmoilhbut they confide:6 Of. The Whig/mutation contirigent hereunto is not by Naiutegrbui by.