Basil Valentine his triumphant Chariot of Antimony, with annotations of
Theodore Kirkringius, M.D. With the true book of the learned Synesius,
a Greek abbot, taken out of the Emperour's library, concerning the
Philosopher's Stone. London, 1678, 8vo.[251]
There are said to be three Hamburg editions of the collected works of
Valentine, who discovered the common antimony, and is said to have given
the name _antimoine_, in a curious way. Finding that the pigs of his
convent throve upon it, he gave it to his brethren, who died of it.[252]
The impulse given to chemistry by R. Boyle[253] seems to have brought out a
vast number of translations, as in the following tract: