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Description: Extract and symbol key from an alchemical text - Kenelm Digby A Choice Collection of Rare Secrets (1682) Take reddiſh rich Virgin Earth in ♈, impregnate it with ☉, ☽, ſerene and dew, till the end of May: Then imbibe ſprinklingly with dew gathered in May, and dry in ☉, expoſe all Night to the ☽ and Air, ſecuring it from Rain. Still when it is dry, imbibe and turn the Earth often. Continue this till 🝞mation. The hot ☉ (eſpecially in the Dog-days) will make a pure Salt ſhoot up, which mingle back into the Earth, by turning it all over. Then diﬅill by graduated 🜂 as A.F. forcing all the Spirits[...] An Explication of the Charac͡ters which are uſed in this Book. ☉ Gold. ☽ Silver. ♂ Iron. ☿ Mercury. ♃ Jupiter. ♀ Venus. ♄ Lead. 🜬 Antimony. 🜹 Sal Ammoniac. A.F. Aqua Fortis. A.℞. Aqua Regis. S.V. Spirit of Wine. 🝞 Sublimate. 🝟 Precipitate. 🝛 Amalgama. 🜄 Water. 🜂 Fire.
Title: Alchemy-Digby-RareSecrets
Credit: The image is a combination of two scanned portions of the book Wing_D1426 from Early English Books Online http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/docs//dox/alchem.html
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