Laboratories alchemical

Newman, William R. and Lawrence M. Principe, eds. Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence edited by William R. Newman and Lawrence M. 

Alchemical Laboratory Bulletins. rhttp //www.spagyria.com/ bulletinannounce.htm http //www.spagyria.com/alb.zip1. 2001. 

Bit Nur. Alchem Lab Bulls, no. 13 (Q4 1962). rhttp //www.spagyria.com/alb.zip1. (Translated from German—especially for the Alchemical Laboratory Bulletin). The following describes an experience that Dr. had while in Nuristan... 

Soukup, R.W., S. von Osten and H. Mayer. Alembics, cucurbits, phials, crucibles a 16th-century alchemical laboratory inventory excavated in Austria... 

One of the most useful roadmaps of alchemical laboratory activity across the twentieth century, from which this information is derived, can be found in Caron 2005. 

In a speech to Wagner (lines 1021-1055), Faust admits that neither he nor his father deserve any praise for their medical skills. His father brewed secret recipes in the Black Kitchen, or alchemical laboratory. He and his adepts blended contrariness of every sort, marrying a Scarlet Lion (mercury) to a Lily (hydrochloric acid). But in the end, the patients went on dying. Wagner consoles Faust, saying that both father and son did their best, and a father will always pass his knowledge down to his son. 

Bernard then encountered a magistrate of the city of Treves, who believed that the Philosopher s Stone could be obtained from sea salt. So Bernard set up an alchemical laboratory on the coast of the Baltic. He labored for a year and a half, working with the salt, but again encountered only failure, even though he repeated all of his procedures 5 or 10 times. 

Note that the apparatus in their mideighteenth-century laboratory would not be out of place in an alchemical laboratory of the Middle Ages the same range of crucibles, furnaces, and distillation apparatus (the last on the long shelf above the laboratory bench) could be found in each. 

And yet alchemical laboratories proliferated in the early modern period as alchemy s visibility rose. In the cities, courts, and cloisters of the Holy Roman Empire, practitioners and patrons with the means to do so built special buildings for their alchemical work, while others improvised with whatever spaces were available kitchens, churches, apothecary shops, and workshops. Archival remnants of some of these spaces do, in fact, remain these bits and pieces—inventories, architectural details, supply orders, and reports—offer a glimpse of their contours and how space organized the activity inside that can complement the work of archaeologists. This view from the laboratory floor, as it were, not only can begin to fill in some very basic details about how space was employed to organize the production... 

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