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be prescribed. And very wonderful indeed is the chemical knowledge displayed in this and other of Valentine's writings.
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Basil Valentine.
(From the Collection of Etchings in the Royal Gallery, Munich.)
Basil Valentine explains the process of fusing iron with this stibium and obtaining thereby "by a particular manipulation a curious star which the wise men before me called the signet star of philosophy." He commences the treatise already mentioned by explaining that he is a monk of the Order of St. Benedict, which (I quote from an English translation by Theodore Kirkringius, M.D., published at London in 1678) "requires another manner of Spirit of Holiness
