Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bottle_n	receptacle_n	wooden_a	12	3	16.4221	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86029	A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth. / By John Rudolph Glauber. Set forth in English, by J.F. D.M.; Furni novi philosophici. English.	Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.; French, John, 1616-1657.	1651 (1651)	Wing G846; Thomason E649_3; ESTC R202215	318,170	477

and for the sake of these were these glasses invented by the help whereof most subtile spirits are without any loss of their vertues if you please a very long time preserved and kept And because when there is occasion the spirits cannot be poured forth by reason of the Mercury in the brim you must get a drawer like to that by the help whereof wine is taken out of the vessell but lesser having a belly with a little mouth made very accurately This being let downe you may take up as much as you please as is needful the upper orifice whereof being stopped with the finger nothing drops out being put into a lesser glass is thence poured forth for your use Then you must again cover the remainder of the spirit that is in the glass and as oft as is needful take out with that drawer as much as is usefull And this is the best way by which most subtile spirits are retained which also are very well retained in those glasses whose steeples are of glasse smoothed with grinding But this is a more costly way of keeping in spirits and it is done after this manner How glasse stopples are to be smoothed with grinding for the retaining of spirits in their glass vessels FIrst of all order the matter so that you have glass bottles of several sorts some greater some lesser with strong necks and mouths with their glass stopples which being smoothed by grinding shut the orifice of the bottle very close Now they are smoothed thus Put the stopples in the turn being set or fastned in some wood bring it into a round shape then being moistned with Smiris and water mixed together let it be put to the mouth of the bottle so as to be turned round in the mouth of the bottle which you must often take away from the stopples being fastened to the turn for the oftener moistening of it which is with that mixture of prepared Smiris and water with the help of a pencil or feather and that so often and so long untill the stopple stop the mouth of the bottle most closely which being done you wipe off the Smiris with a lint from the stopples and mouth of the the bottle then smeer over the stopple with a liniment made of some fine washed earth and water or oyl and again turn it round in the mouth of the bottle and often smear it over with this fresh mixture untill the stopple be most exactly smoothed which afterward is to be tyed to its proper bottle the same also is to be understood concerning the rest that one may not be taken for an other c. And that you may not need to take away so much from the stopples and bottles get some copper moulds made for the stopples which stopples must be taken whilest they bee yet warm soft and new drawn from the furnace that they may be made of a just roundness as also other copper moulds Which must bee put into the mouths of the bottles whilest they be yet hot and soft for the better making of them round whereby afterwards the stopple may more easily and quickly become fit to stop the mouths of the bottles very close as for example A. is the stopple B. the glass or bottle if thou knowest how to order them rightly they will quickly and easily fit one the other In defect of a turn proceed after the following manner which is slow yet safe because in a turn the glasses oftentimes waxing hot are broken by reason of the over great hast and it is thus make an iron or wooden receptacle fit to receive the glass bottle which being covered about with linen and put in join both parts of the receptacle warily and softly with the help of a screw that the bottle be not broken and because that instrument or receptacle of the bottle being fastened to a form with the help of a screw cannot be moved Afterwards cause that another wooden instrument be made for the stopple as for example A. the stopple with its receptacle B. the bottle with its receptacle that may be separated in the middle and be again reunited with a screw after the putting in of the stopple which being smeered over with the aforesaid mixture of smiris and water take an instrument with both hands and put the stopple round about the neck of the bottle and grind it round upon the other as Wine Coopers are used to doe in smoothing the taps and that so long untill the stopple be fit for the bottle then reiterate the same labour with the earth tripolis untill it bee compleated and it will stop as well as a stopple made by the help of a turn These foresaid ways of stopping are the best by which the breakings of glasses are prevented viz. whilest men are in an errour about the fixing of spirits of salts minerals and metals which although they are fixed with great costs and labours yet doe not satisfie what is promised and expected because those kinds of fixations are violent and forced and by consequence contrary to nature but in the profitable fixation of spirits not so where we must follow Nature and not commit our selves to fortune in our labours For onely fooles are wont to breake their glasses in their supposed tincture but Philosophers not so for every violent thing is an enemy to Nature and all the operations of Nature are spontaneous They erre therefore and never shall come unto their desired end who attempt violent fixations I cannot bee perswaded that bodies dead or halfe dead can be so mixed together as to multiply but I could easily beleeve that the conjunction of male and female of one and the same species sound and nourished with sound and wholesome meats to be naturall and to make a spontaneous propagation and multiplication of their species viz. of those that endure in a good and adverse fortune in life and death but the conjunction of dead things to be dead and barren Doe but consider how many and various instruments both gold silver copper iron tin and lead as also earthen glass stone and other vessels of other materials have been already invented and found out for the fixing of Mercury alone with gold and silver but in vain because they have no mutuall affinity For although Mercury adheres to metals or metals to it yet that is not by reason of any affinity for multiplication or perfection sake for it appeares by experience that Mercury flies away in the fire and leaves the gold silver and other metals Where it is clear that they have no mutuall affinity requisite for the multiplication of metals nor is it ever possible For they that have a mutuall affinity embrace one the other and abide together for ever although volatile yet never leave one the other like gold and Mercury when they are united together with the strongest bond so that they can never be separated although with the strongest fire Wherefore a great care is to be had in