Page:The Art of Distillation, 1651.djvu/25

 1 VVhat Ditillation is, and the kinds thereof. Shall not tand here to hew whence the Art of Distillation had its originall, and if known, yet little conducing to our enuing Dicoure. But let us undertand what Ditillation is, of which there are three principall, and chief definitions, or decriptions. 1. Ditillation is a certain Art of extracting the Liquor, or the humid part of things by vertue of heat (as the matter hall require) being firt reolved into a vapour, and then condened again by cold. 2. Ditillation is the changing of gros thick bodies into a thinner, and liquid ubtance, or eparation of the pure liquor from the impure feces. I hall treat of Ditillation according to all thee three acceptions, and no otherwie, hence I hall exclude Sublimation, Band