The description of new philosophical furnaces - Jean Rudolphe Glauber 1651

The description of new philosophical furnaces - Jean Rudolphe Glauber 1651

This is what the Ancients agree with the Moderns, and for centuries from the great Hermes to our, we will find that the most learned men have made a particular profession of this Art. Solomon had never had so perfect a knowledge of all the plants, from hyssop to cedar, if he had not used the lights which one draws from these operations. To conceive of the esteem one must make if one only has to read what Geber, Rassis and Roger Bacon wrote about it. Arnauld de Villeneuve, Isaac Hollandais, the incomparable Raymond Lulle, the abbot Tritheme, Basil Valentine, Paracelsus, Dornaes, Alexander Suctenius, Severinus Danus, Sendivegius named the Cosmopolitan, Robert Flut, Qurectanus or the Violet, Helmont, and especially it is not necessary that know the esteem in fact Mr Valot, very worthy first Doctor of the King, & the care which he takes for some years of the laboratory which he entrusted in the hands of the Febvre Apothecary of the King, who on the first day he goes back to the Chemistry Court, which he has already taught several times, with the universal applause of all those who have listened to his precepts, and seen his demonstrations, and I want the reader to know the obligation he has as well as me, for having given me lights for the senses, some German Dictionaries & Phrases, being as well versed in this Language.