 Gebir in regarding potable gold — that is, gold dissolved in nitro-hydrochloric acid or aqua regia — as the elixir of life. Urging it on the attention of Pope Nicholas IV., he informs his Holiness of an old man who found some yellow liquor (the solution...  Chambers's Papers for the People - Pàgina 7editat per - 1856Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 382 pàgines
...gold-making. He followed Geber in regarding potable gold — that is, gold dissolved in nitrohydrochloric acid or aqua-regia — as nothing less than that terrestrial...many a dose of this golden water himself, and, if the Grey Friars had not made away with him, he might therefore have been alive at this moment, as stout... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 380 pàgines
...gold-making. He followed Geber in regarding potable gold — that is, gold dissolved in nitrohydrochloric acid or aqua-regia — as nothing less than that terrestrial...many a dose of this golden water himself, and, if the Grey Friars had not made away with him, he might therefore have been alive at this moment, as stout... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 386 pàgines
...Geber in regarding potable gold—that is, gold dissolved in nitrehydrochloric acid or aqua-regia—as nothing less than that terrestrial hypocrene. Urging...many a dose of this golden water himself, and, if the Grey Friars had not made away with him, he might therefore have been alive at this moment, as stout... | |
 | William Chambers - 1868 - 876 pàgines
...hydrochloric acid or aqua regia — as the elixir of life. Urging it on the attention of Pope Kicholas IV., ho informs his Holiness of an old man who found some...was thereupon transformed into a hale, robust, and highly accomplished youth. Bacon no doubt took many a dose of this golden water himself. — Albertus... | |
 | 1892 - 994 pàgines
...IV, informs his Holiness of an old man who found some yellow liquor in a golden flask, when plowing one day in Sicily. Supposing it to be dew, he drank it off, and was immediately transformed into a hale, robust, and highly accomplished youth. Having abandoned... | |
 | 1878 - 882 pàgines
...gold — that is, gold dissolved in nitro-hydrochloric acid or aqua regia — as the elixir of life. Urging it on the attention of Pope Nicholas IV., he...was thereupon transformed into a hale, robust, and highly accomplished youth. Bacon no doubt took many a dose of this golden water himself. — Albertus... | |
 | 1880 - 890 pàgines
...old man who found some yellow liquor (the solution of gold is yellow) in a golden vial, when plowing one day in Sicily. Supposing it to be dew, he drank...was thereupon transformed into a hale, robust, and highly accomplished youth. Bacon no doubt took many a dose of this golden water himself. — Albertus... | |
 | 1883 - 840 pàgines
...it is consequently the oldest book on chemistry proper in the world. It contains во much of what in a golden phial, when ploughing one day in Sicily. Supposing it to be dew, he drank it oiT. He was thereupon transformed into a hale, robust, and highly accomplished youth. Bacon no doubt... | |
 | 1888 - 878 pàgines
...— that is, gold dissolved in nitro-hydrochloric acid or ./•/,/./ reqia — as the elixir of life. Urging it on the attention of Pope Nicholas IV., he...was thereupon transformed into a hale, robust, and highly accomplished youth. — Albertus Magnus (qv) had a great mastery of the practical chemistry... | |
 | New York Academy of Sciences - 1892 - 224 pàgines
...Pope Nicholas IV, informs his Holiness of an old man who found some yellow liquor in a golden flask when ploughing one day in Sicily. Supposing it to be dew he drank it off, and was immediately transformed into a hale, robust, and highly-accomplished youth. Having abandoned... | |
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