Brunschwig, Hieronymus

Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1530. English trans, of Lawrence Andrew, rept. 1971. Book of Distillation, intro, by Harold Abrahams. New York Johnson Reprint. 

Hieronymus Brunschwig (c. 1450-c. 1512) of Germany writes his Kleines Distillierbuch. This copiously illustrated work remained the most important book on distilling for decades. 

Figure 8. Pelican far right, second from top) and other glassware, from Hieronymus Brunschwig, Liber de arte Distillandi (Strasbourg Johann Grtinignger, 1512). (From the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, a collection in the Othmer Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation. Photo by Douglas A. Lockard.)...

Pelican and other glassware, from Hieronymus Brunschwig, Liber de arte... 

Below left two of the ovens used by alchemists, from Hieronymus Brunschwig s 1519 work on equipment for distilling. The upper illustration shows the ordinary oven with the distilling apparatus in the flue. Below is a type of oven in which water is heated, with four distilling vessels embedded in sand in the top of it. 

Abrahams, Harold. 1971. Introduction. Book of Distillation by Hieronymus Brunschwig. New York lohnson Reprint. 

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