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Excerpt from Johannis Conradi Barchusen Elementa Chemiæ, Quibus Subjuncta Est Confectura Lapidis Philosophici Imaginibus Repræsentata
Dioecefeos ordinibus tune temporis confecravi, demififiîme atque fubjeétiflìme exhibui: hoc etiam benignifiìme avobis acceptum efi. Q1andoquidem vero iftud avide emptum adeoque eius paucitas eft, ut vix veneat: multi me flagitarunt, ut curam cogitationem de nova libri editione fufciperem: his ergo gratificari debai volui. Verum tantum abefr, ut jam idem liber, quamquarn eandem quam primus, fpeciem prae fe ferat, exeat, ut interpolis, imo potins novus lit. Nam inconditum antiquorum Chemicorum dicendi Compluria vocabula Barbara, quibus Chemici identidem utuntur quae autem plerique omneslatinitatis ftudiofi faftidiunt, eatenus fuftuli quoad citra rerum obfcurimtem fieri potuit.' Neque tamen omnia e volumine hoccere movi: quippe font vocabula artis quae quamvis Barbariem prae fe gerant, ufum habent; quoniam per haec interdum fignificantur res qax alias pluribus verbis circumfcribi ac definiri deberenturr imo hula ex artis propria necdlitate concepta, inconfueto fermone objiciunt fenfibus obfcuritatem. Quid quod optimi Latinitatis auctores ut Cicero Vitru.i vins, Plinius &c. De variis ftu'diis artibus, qua: Graeciae vel aliaram exterarum gentium monumentis difciplinifque traditx erant, fcribentes femel ac fae pius' - caufantnr qaum propria artis vocabula eram.
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