Joh. Joachimi Beccheri ... Oedipus chymicus, seu, Institutiones chymicae

The work, divided into seven chapters, covers the principles of substance, namely, sulphurand and salt, and the principles of quality, mercury and salt. Also includes a chemical interpretation of fire, air, water and earth. The terms, generation, sperm, menstruum, matrix, weight and heat, are covered, as well as the chemical operations of accretion, decretion, solution, coagulation, destruction, and transmutation. The last chapter is concerned with the terminology, instruments, materials, operations, chemical writings, a method of studying chemistry, a method of philosophizing chemically.