Workdiary 18 (Chymical recipes, late 1650s)

Content: Chymical recipes from the late 1650s, mainly involving metals and their transmutations; includes detailed extracts from works by Girolamo Cardano on metallurgical processes

General Information

• Creation: late 1650s
• Hands: uncertain hand ( all entries)
• Source: Royal Society, MS 193, fols. 1-10
• Languages: English (31 entries)
• Length: 31 entries, 13 numbered;
• Note 1: This workdiary is written in a bound notebook whose pages are approximately octavo size; thus it is in a format different from most of the other contemporary workdiaries. Only a portion of the notebook is used; fols. 10v-24 are blank and are not included here.