Från stoicism till mystik: Studier i drottning Kristinas maximer

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Chemistry, Medicine, and Gold‐Making: Tycho Brahe, Helwig Dieterich, Otto Tachenius, and Johann Glauber

“…From Hamburg she correspond with Glauber, and five drafts of her letters from 1666-1668 are still in existence. [153,154] By that time, Glauber was in ill health and spent much of his time in bed, while his lab went into disrepair. Much of his equipment had been sold in 1663.…”

“…2. 1689: [154] "Ignis Glauberi, which Your Majesty desired, by which all vegetables, animals, minerals and other substances are extracted by fire, corrected, and amended, and by which even the poisons are rendered wholesome; it is fixed niter [K 2 CO 3 ], which is prepared as follows." Optimally purified Nitrum [KNO 3 ] is mixed with a third part of aluminis plumosi [feather alum, FeAl 2 (SO 4 ) 4 • 22 H 2 O], and the whole well sealed and surrounded by coals, not wood, is fired for four days, the first day using a light fire, which releases a spirit; the second day a strong fire, the violence of which causes much spirit to go over into the receiver [this should be HNO 3 ].…”