Description:
Synopsis of the course Linnaeus taught at Uppsala in the summer of 1733 on mineralogy and the art of assaying in order to pay his debts. It was attended by a large audience and he received around 200 silver dalers (each pupil being charged 2 plåtar).
Contents:
p. 3 Title page
'Caroli Linnaei | M. et H. N. C. | 'Vulcanus Docimasticus [later insert] | Collegium Docimasticum | in qvo | Ars Docimastica | vulgo | Prober-Konsten | dicta | brevissime et dilucide proponitur | cum | instrumentis, materialibus & processibus | generalibus ac specialibus | nec non | cautelis, observationibus & variationibus | cum | Appendice | de | Re Nummaria | habitum | coram | curiosissimis na[tur]ae indagoribus | Upsaliae 1733'
p. 4 'Auditores Benevoli'
p. 5 'Intimatio' signed C.L.
p. 7 'Linnaei Docimastica' Introduction to the subject, with sections (usually a little paragraph long) entitled 'Definitio', 'Inventor', 'usus', 'autores', 'instrumenta'.
p. 8 'Catinus'
p. 9 'Capeller'
p. 12 11. 'Apotheca' list of symbols and chemical characters
p. 17 'Theoretica' with dichotomous diagram
p. 20 'Practica generalia', 'Elutiatio'
p. 21 'Calcinatio' numbered list
p. 22 'Scoriatio' numbered list
p. 24 'Cupellatio'
p. 26 'Regulatio'
p. 29 'Solutio'
p. 30 'Praecipituo'
p. 32 'Chrystallisatio'
p. 33 'Practica Particularia'
p. 34 'Processus' numbered list
p. 35 'Metalla in Dall probera' numbered list
Follow a list of metals, one per page or more, and with their symbols and characteristics.
p. 41 'Plumbum'
p. 45-48 'Cuprum'
p. 49-51 'Ferrum'
p. 53-54 'Stannum'
p. 55 'Zincum
p. 57 Antimonium' blank - notes on p. 57
p. 58 'Coboltum'
p. 60 'Vitrum'
p. 61 'Sulphur'
p. 62 'Mercurius'
pp. 63-67 various notes
p. 68 'Applicatio'
p. 73-79 Tables, with Linnaeus's pagination
p. 81- 83 'Curioso Metallurgia studioso' numbered list of 10 items
p. 85 - 87 notes on metallurgy
pp. 88- 93 blank
p. 94 drawing of a crystal
p. 95 'Monandria Diandria' erased. Followed by 'I. Genera[ti]o metallor[um]' subdivided into other titles. Pp. 95-100 paginated in ink 140-145
p. 96 '2. Malmsheck'
p. 97 '3. Signa Metallo[rum] Reconditor[um]'
p. 103 (different paper) 'Class. II Petrae'
p. 106 'Class. III Mineralier'
Title:
'Collegium docimasticum'
Author(s):
Carl von Linné 1707-1778