Description:
Contents (page numbers follow Johan Markus Hulth's and Granström's paginations):
Title page:
'Caroli Linnæi | Vulcanus Docimasticus | hvilken föreställer | Proberkonsten | kort doch tydeligen | till des | Instrumenta primaria och secundaria, | materialia simplicia och præparata [written over 'mixta' crossed out] | Processus generales och Speciales | med | cauteler observationer | variationer | 1734. Octobr. Fahlun.'
p. 2 'Catalogus eorum | quorum impensis ab autore conscriptus est vulcanus ha | anno 1734' Follows a list of authors, along with their nationality and their subject of study, and a number.
p. 3-5 'Gunstige Läsare' Preface, signed Carl Linnaeus at the end.
p. 6 'Conspectus operis' in a dichotomous diagram
p 7 later additional notes
p. 11 'Prolegomena' - definition of a few terms in the form of lists
p. 14-21 definitions of chemical and mineralogical symbols and assaying terms.
p 22-72: each page has a the name of a process followed by text, with marginalia throughout:
p. 22: 'Catinus definit.' [catinus = smelting crucible]
p. 26 'Cupella definit.'
p. 27 'Claretum definit.'
p. 31-35 diagrams and scales of measurement
p. 41 'Characteres docimat' list of chemical characters/symbols
p. 42 'Termini'
p. 43 'Ingredientia'
p. 44-52 'Praeparata' numbered list
p. 53 'Processus'
p. 55 'Elutriatio.'
p. 56 'Calcina[ti]o'
p. 59 'Scoratio'
p. 64-66 'Capellatio'
p. 67 'Regula[ti]o simplex'
p. 71 'Regula[ti]o dupl[ex]'
Title:
'Vulcanus docimasticus:': Volume 1
Author(s):
Carl von Linné 1707-1778