Satürn'ün Eseri: Mineral Eserleri'nin İlk Kitabı

The First Book of the Mineral Works of Master Johann Isaak Holland, or on the Philosophers' Stone. I wish to teach my son the first method discovered in Alchemy to reduce all metals, which are dead and impure, to the true Sun and Moon. My son shall know that this method is called the first order in Alchemy, because it is the first that was found in the nature of things to perfect imperfect metals. The Work of the First Order. Chapter 1. Take first twelve pounds of Saturn, that is lead, and reduce it into ashes by stirring in an oblong clay vessel, so that you can pass it through a small sieve. Then wash the aforementioned ashes of Saturn with clean, pure water until the water flows away clear. When this is done, dry your Saturn with fire a little until it becomes a powder. Then take common salt, or salt that has not been boiled, and throw it into cold water; throw away whatever cannot be dissolved in the cold water, for it is entirely useless. But congeal the dissolved salt into such a dryness that it becomes a powder. Then take a part of that salt and an equal amount of Saturn, and grind them together on a stone with sharp vinegar made from wine. Then dry it with a slow fire until it becomes a powder.