A. Kircher: Mundus Subterraneus

I. On Stones in general.

II. On the stony substance, which is discerned in Geocosm, and the origin of the mountains.

III. On the Power of Stone diffused through the entire body of Geocosmos.

IV On the origin of stones and rocks, and how they merged into such hardness in the course of time.

V. On the color of stones and jewels, and for what reason he was implanted in them by Nature under such a difference of colors.

VI. In this we will discuss the cause and origin of transparent stones and precious stones, and first of all, of crystals of jewels, and thence of the origin of diamonds.

VII. On the various figures, forms, and images by which Nature furnished stones and gems.

VIII. On the wonderful works of nature's painter, the forms, figures, and pictures, which he outlines in stones and gems, and their origin and causes.

II. On the Transformation of Juices, Salts of Herbs, Plants, Trees, Animals, and Humans into a stone, or of the petrific faculty.

II. Observations on the various things on the stones of the palace.

V. Fossil horns, which have a great affinity with the underground bones, but especially the horn of a unicorn.

III. On Asbestos, Amber, and other bituminous gums and other fluids, and also of those fossils which possess wonderful virtues.

II. The preparation of asbestos flax in order to weave fabrics and paper to finish.

IV How little animals of different kinds have been placed in the center of Amber's tomb.

VII. On the twelve stones placed in the Rational of the Great Priest and in the foundations of the Apocalyptic State

IV. On the Underground Animals

I. On certain animals, which cannot live outside the Earth as they always live, so they always inhabit its hidden organs.

I. On the Poisons and their Nature, Origin and Wonderful Properties

II. On certain terrestrial minerals, from which all poisons derive their origin from the underground.

III. On the accidental genesis of poison in other plants and animals, both living and dead bodies.

V. The difference between the food, the medication, and the drug: various divisions of consent and disagreement of things, which they call Sympathia and Antipathia; and whether the quarrel and friendship of things is perfected by the primal or elementary qualities, or by the specific virtues of things?

VI. On poisons by consent and dissent, and their origin and causes.

II. On the Poisons of the Sensitive and Vegetable Nature

III. How the poisons of animals infect and kill man, or the causes of poisons.

IV. Where Vipers and the other species of Aspids are related, the venom of the first class will be stabled, where they will locate their home in Lethe, and those who cause their venom within the human body.

V. How poisons do not harm some animals, and how poisons exert themselves through the bite of a rabid dog and a tarantula, only for a specified period of time.

III. Metallic imperfect bodies, which come together as principal causes for the genesis of metals. In which the mineral poisons and their medicinal powers are explained in greater detail.

IV. I live on silver, or Mercury, and its nature and amazing properties.

I. The requirements of the Metallic Art and the creation of mines.

I. On the Object of Metallurgy Also for the material and formal reasons of metals.

II. Whether the sky and the stars meet (GREEK) and how the stars can meet in the production of metals.

III. How that unctuous liquid, from which metals are composed, is elaborated by nature, and what are there sulfur, mercury, and sun in it?

IV How all things are produced from the efficiency of earthly heat and humidity. Likewise what is that statement that makes metals fluid in fire, but not stones and plants and other things? how Nature proceeds in solving and operational matters.

II. On Metals, Minerals and Other Minerals, and Mineral Diseases and Remedies.

I. What things are required for the complete knowledge of the Metallica Art, or on the condition of the Prefect of the Fountains.

IV. On the Remedies by which malignant air is purged in metallic mines.

V. On the manner of draining a pool of water, which is a great hindrance to the diggers.

VII. Metallognomia, or the signs of latent metal, and by what art the veins of metals are known.

III. On the nature, property, and various accidents of metal mines, various answers to the author.

I. On the Mines of Hungary and the notable events which occur therein; Where Schemniziana's reply to nineteen points was submitted by the author.

II. Response to the questions proposed by John Schapelmann, S. Caes. Herrengundt in Hungary.

III. George Schutz of his S. Caesareae Maiestatis in Camera Schemnicensi accounts for the mineral business of the prefect.

IV Father Andrea Schafferi of the different minerals found in the Hungarian mines.

V. And the last Report on the Mines of Tyrol, made by the most eminent and illustrious man, Mr. John Gervick, Archduke Seren's advisor.

IV. The Particular Conditions of Mines and the Various Processes in Metallic Minerals for Digging, Dipping, Digging, and Separating One from the Other.

VII. The gold and silver mines, which are found in Peru, the New Kingdom, and New Spain in America, are of remarkable creativity, according to the Report. of the Fathers, Soc. Jesus

I. On the Origin of Alchemy

IV About Pyrotechnia, or the requirements for chemical operations of vessels and instruments.

V. On Furnaces, Furniture, Colors, Levels, and Other Chemistry

VI .Canon of the Method and Paradigmatics, together with the operations of chemistry through experiments, and various examples proper to each of these operations are shown and proved.

II. On the Stone of the Philosophers

I. What is the Philosopher's Stone, what Elixir, or Philosophical Dye?

II. Whether there is a true and real transformation of one metal into another.

III. On the manner and method of the preparation of the Philosopher's Stone and Dye

IV The perfect mastery of the great art is examined by Lullus, Azotho, and the others.

V. It is taught that the Alchymicians of the Great Art could not subsist a little before the process of bringing them together.

VI. It is demonstrated that Arnold Villanovano made all the attempts of Chrysopaeian to be in vain from the very Alchymists themselves

VII. The objections against the said process and their authors are refuted.

VIII. PSEUDOCHEMIST: About the deceits and deceptions, and the ways in which the Alchymists claim that they can muster true Gold as they once did, so even today they do not cease to toss.

IX. That the demon interferes for the most part with the worshipers of Alchemy.

III. On the Sophistic Alchymia, that is, of that Alchymia, which you will join Gold and Silver, Copper, Lead, and Tin; thence he forges gold with great increase.

I. On the various false and unlawful operations of various Sophists

II. Concerning the lawful or illicit gold of chemists, which they call by addition, or by what part to a part, that is, any metal adjoined to gold, he multiplies it.

I. THE RIGHT OR LEGAL Whether chemical gold, for whatever reason, can be lawfully sold for the truth.

III. In this it is briefly disclosed what was properly the most chanted stone of the philosophers among the ancient Alchymists, and what the ancient philosophers and their modern followers understood by him at length.

I. On the Panspermia of things.

II. The way in which nature proceeds in the genesis of minerals is explained.

IV This seed is nothing else than a Salem planted in the elements of Nature, to which the next three principles of nature are essentially interwoven.

V. How the universal seed concurs in the generation of animals, and about the wonderful efficacy of plastic power in the seed of animals.

VI. On the spontaneous birth of the living, or the hidden breed of those who are said to be born from an infectious

VIII. In which combinative substrates from which both flat and free animals are born are produced by spontaneous generation.

IX. How both algae and insects of every kind grow out of the bodies of mature animals.

X. On the Spontaneous Origin of Insects from Other Perfect Animals of Different Species

II. On animals, which are called by the Greeks (GREEK), by the Latin insects, of various natural and artificial productions.

IV On the origin of the Insects of Analytra, which they call Bipennia.

V. On the origin of those Insects, which have wings enclosed in a sheath.

VI. Concerning Insects, which, though destitute of wings, are drawn up with many feet.

VII. On worms, which are in animals, especially among men.

III. He explores the second kingdom of nature; What is the botanical philosophy, and about the wonderful effects which the subterranean world excels in the genesis of plants and plants, and how wonderful things can be brought about by art.

II. On the three principles of nature, from which such a variety of plants springs, all fermentative things.

III. On the Differences of Plants What things are necessary for understanding the strength of plants, and how their powers are to be explored from diversity.

IV. Stalactica Art, or Distillation.

INTRODUCTION The distillation technique is to imitate the natural distillation in the underground factory or Ergasterium.

II. On the species of the elements and their compounds, and their use and advantage in things arranged in nature according to the rule of art.

III. On the first and clear, hidden or specific qualities of Plants and their individual parts, such as Leaves, Roots, Flowers, Fruit, Seeds, and Trees; Oils and Gum, and their strength and properties in use by the physician, extracted from the records of the best-known physicians of ancient and modern times, and brought back to the Synoptic Tables.

IV On the prodigious faculties of plants, which it is said to have originated from the underground.

V. On the various Accidents of Plants, by Questions to be posed

V. Secrets of the various arts Ergasteria or Shops, in which mine operations are built next to the underground Archaeus prototype.

II. The Latrico-Chemical Index, by which the truth of the drinkable gold is explored.

III. Yktryn Gold or Magisteries made of gold among the physicians whom the Alchymists boast of, possess usefulness, efficacy, and efficacy, and whether it can or should be called universal medicine.

VII. The Anacephalaeotic Canons, which are directed at the operations of an artist in chemists, and by which the true operations are distinguished from the false, both from the author and the other rightly-sensing chemists.

Part. II. The Art of Metallostatics, or the Art, by which science can be ascertained with certainty through the weighing of a mixture of metals and minerals, together with the balance of humidity, drought, and non-existent mineral and vegetable matter in each mixture, both animal and animal.

Part. III. The Art of Glass, in which not only the wonderful works of glass, but also the Crystals, Perlis, and Precious Stones for creating the living model of nature.

IV. On the adultery of jewels, or of the painted composition of stones and jewels, partly approved by their own experience, partly by the authority of these writers and by the communication of their friends.

Part IV Pyrobolic art, which they also call Pyrotechnia.

III. The practices of scourge-chemistry on several approved antidotes against cutthroats: Pyrio powder, sulphur, incandescent iron, liquefied lead, and other similar substances.

IV. Practices of compositions for the Rochettas of every kind, which the Italians call Raggi, the Germans Rakettas, from the mind of Siemie-novii, and the other Pyrotechni, who devote themselves to the preparation of the dust.

VI. Other practices concerning fire compositions for festive days.

VII. We are accustomed to use light ranges such as recreative fires, said Lichtfugel to the Germans.

VIII. On the various exhibitions of the exhibitions, with the help of techniques for establishing pyramidal techniques.

THE LAST PART On the arrangements of some of the mysteries of mechanical arts as a model for the subterranean nature.

I. The art of goldsmiths and other craftsmen who are occupied in the mines.