Aqua vitae

Aquavit, m. aqua vitae, whisky pi. spirits, aqui-. equi-. 

Lobens-unterhalt, m. living, subsistence, -ver-richtung, /. vital function, -versicherung, /. life insurance, -voi ang, m. vital process, -wandel, m. life, conduct, -wasser, n. aqua vitae (spirits), -weise,/. mode of life. 

Vaughan, Thomas. Aqua vitae, non vitas a note-book. Bothell (WA) Alchemical P, 1983. 

Vaughan, Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan. Aqua Vitae Non Vitis or, the radical humiditie of Nature mechanically, and magically dissected by the conduct of fire, and ferment (British Library MS, Sloane 1741 edited and translated with an introduction by Donald R. Dickson. Edited by Donald R. Dickson. Tempe (AZ) Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001. liii, 270 p. 

Biographical Introduction. Thomas Vaughan Rebecca Vaughan — Rebecca Vaughan As Research Partner and Idealized Muse — The Vaughans As "Experimental Philosophers". Spiritual Vs. Experimental Alchemy The Vaughans and the Iatrochemical Evolution — Textual Introduction — Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan, Aqua Vitae... 

Concerning common salt for the purification of Aqua Vitae." In A golden and blessed casket of Nature s marvels, ed. Benedictus Figulus, 271-274., 1893. 

Vaughan, Thomas, Thomas and Rebecca Vaughans Aqua Vitae Non Vitis BL MS SloaneiJ4i), ed. Donald R. Dickson (Tempe, Ariz., 2001). 

From about 1250, under the names of aqua ardens, aqua vini, aqua vitae, and in the sixteenth century as alcohol vini or finally simply as alcohol the application of alcohol to medicine and to other arts extended rapidly. 

Vaughan, Thomas and Rebecca, Aqua Vitae, Non Vitis, Arizona Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001... 

AQUA VITAE — is Mercury, but the term is sometimes used for distilled Wine, and for various Waters mixed with distilled Wine. 

Firstly, we extract a fiery Spirit out of our fixed Central-Salt, the Water of Life (aqua vitae), the volatile white Lily, the volatile white Dragon or Eagle. 

Ithell Colquhoun, a member of a group much influenced by the Golden Dawn, unequivocally identified the objects of alchemy with those of sex. She maintained that the alembic was the uterus and the bath of Venus was the vagina. "Moderate fire" referred to the sexual heat of the body, and aqua vitae to female secretions. 

Figure 2. A pipe filled with cold water makes a fanciful cooling tower. Solutions are heated at the bottom and a distilled medicinal water (an aqua vitae) is collected at the top. The depiction of alchemical instruments sometimes arose more from the imagination than from actual use. From H. Brunschwig, Das Buch zu Distillieren (Strassburg, 1532). University of Wisconsin Library.

A.—There is for urine, putrefied with a gentle heat, during the space of a fortnight or thereabouts, sends forth a coagulating spirit, which will coagulate well rectified Aqua Vitae. 

It became possible to prepare strong solutions of alcohol, which was Known as aqua vitae, water of life. Nitric acid and aqua regia, an acid (mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid) which dissolves gold became common reagents and were produced on a large scale. This greatly increased the power of the chemist to dissolve substances and carry out reactions in solution. 

Aqua vitae, aqueous alcohol cmicentrated by distillation also... 

Sir Toby Belch Like aqua vitae with a midwife. 

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