A Discovrse of Fire and Salt

Blaise de Vigenère and Edward, active 1649 Stephens

Blaise de Vigenere is remembered for a cipher; his contemporaries knew him as a scholar of nature's secrets. His treatise on fire and salt reads the physical world through those two principles, mixing chemistry, antiquity, and speculation in the grand Renaissance manner. Rendered into seventeenth century English in two parts. Decode the elements with the master of codes.