SECTION VI. — ALCHEMY. 969

Collectanea chymica. [Cont'd.]
\Contt'nts .■]
1. Philalethes . The Secret of the Immortal Liquor called Alkahest
or Ignis-Aqua, communicated to his friend, a son of art and now a philosopher. By question and answer, p. 5.
2. The Practice of T,ights, or an excellent and ancient Treatise of the
Philosophers' Stone, p. 27.
3. Helmont, J oh. Baptist van : Praecipiolum, or the Immature
Mineral-Electrum. The first Metall, which is the Minera of Mercury, p. 45.
4. Antonie, Fr. : Aurum potabile, or the receit shewing the way and
method how he made and prepared that most excellent medicine for the body of man. p. 71.
5. Trevisan, Bernard : A Treatise of the Philosophers' Stone, p. 81.
6. Riply, George: The Bosome-Book. Containing his philosophical
accurtations in the makeing the Philosophers' Mercury and Elixirs, p. loi. 7 Bacon, Roger : Speculum Alchymiae ; the true Glass of Alchemy. London, 1683. p. 125. [The first Latin edition of Speculum Alchymise dates 1614 in Nurnberg. For a French one see Bacon, Roger.]
8. Starkey, George : The admirable Efficacy and almost incredible
Virtue of true Oyl which is made of Sulphur-vive, set on fire, and called commonly Oyl of Sulphur per Campanam, to dis- tinguish it from that rascally sophisticate Oyl of Sulphur which instead of this true Oyl is unfaithfully prepared and sold by Druggists and Apothecaries, to the dishonour of art, and unspeakable damage of their deluded patients. Faith- fully collected out of the writings of the most acute Philos- opher, and unparalleled Doctor of this last Age, John Baptist Van-Helmont, of a noble extraction in Belgia. p. 139.
9. Piatt, Sir Hugh : New and artificial Rerhedies against P'amine.
Written upon the occasion of the great dearth in the year 1596. p. 155. 10. H. V. D. [Pantaleon]. The Tomb of Semiramis Hermetically sealed, which if a Wise-man open (not the ambitious cove- tous Cyrus) he shall find the Treasures of Kings, inexhausti- ble Riches to his content, p. 7. Contains several lists of books on chemistry sold by William Cooper.
COLLESSON, Joannes. See Theatrum chemicum. COMBACH, LUDWIG.
Scripta chymica Riplaei. Cassel, 1649. Cf. Ripley, George.
9/0 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHEMISTRY.
* Compass (Der) der Weisen, von einem Mitverwandten der innerri Ver- fassung der iichten und rechten Freymaurerey beschrieben ; heraus- gegeben mit Anmerkungen einer Zueignungschrift und Vorrede, in welcher die Geschichte dieses erlauchten Ordens, vom Anfang seiner Stiftung an, deutlich und treulich vorgetragen, und die Irrthiimer einiger ausgearteter franzosischer Freymaurer-Logen entdeckt werden, von Ketmia Vere. Berlin und Leipzig, bey Chris- tian Ulrich Ringmacher, 1779. pp. 386, i2mo. Plates.
COMITIBUS, LuDOVlcus DE. See Manget, J. J.
Consilium conjugii seu de massa solis etlunvB.
See Manget, J. J, ; also Theatrum chemicum.
Cooper, William. [Editor.]
*,The Philosophical Epitaph of W. C. Esquire, for a Memento Mori on his Tomb-stone. With three Hieroglyphical Scutcheons, and their Philosophical Mottos and Explanation with the Philosophical Mercury, Nature of Seed, and Life, and Growth of Metalls ; and a Discovery of the Immortal Liquor Alchahest. The Salt of Tartar volatized, and other Elixirs with their Differences. Also : A Brief of the Golden Calf (the Worlds Idol), discovering the rarest Miracle in Nature, how by the smallest proportion of the Philos- ophers-Stone a great piece of common lead was totally transmuted into the purest transplendent Gold at the Hague, 1666, by Fr. Hel- vetius. And : The Golden Ass well managed, and Midas restored to Reason ; Or, A new Chymical Light, Demonstrating to the blind world that good Gold may be found as well in Cold as Hot Regions, and be profitably extracted out of Sand, Stones, Gravel, and Flints, to be wrought by all Sorts of People ; written by Jo. Rud. Glauber. — With Jehior [Aurora Sapientias,] or the Daydawning or Light of Wisdom containing the three Principles or Original of all things ; whereby are discovered the Great and many Mysteries in God, Nature, and the Elements, hitherto hid, now revealed. All pub- lished by W. C, Esquire. With a Catalogue of Chymical Books. London, Printed by T. R. and N. T. for William Cooper, at the Pellican in Little Britain, Anno Domini 1673. pp. [xvii]-i6-[vi] -[x]-4i-[xi]-36-56-[xviii]-78-[v]-[lxxxvii], i2mo. Plates. En- graved title.
The date of the catalogue is 1675. Published under the initials W. C. {= William Cooper).
CORRECTio FATUORUM. See Artis auriferse ; also Manget, J. J.
Creiling, Johann Conrad.
* Dissertatio academica de aureo vellere aut possibilitate transmuta-