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William Yworth
William Yworth or Yarworth (Dutch language, Dutch: Willem IJvaert) (died 1715) was an Anglo-Dutch distillation, distiller, alchemy, alchemist, and physician who collaborated with Isaac Newton. He wrote a number of tracts on distilling and alchemy. Two of his alchemical works, ''Mercury′s Caducean Rod'' (1702) and ''Trifertes Sagani, or Immortal Dissolvent'' (1705) appeared under the pseudonym Cleidophorus Mystagogus. ''Cleidophorus'' is the Latin language, Latinized form of the Greek language, Greek ''kleidophoros'' (κλειδοφόρος), meaning "key bearer," and ''Mystagogus'' is, of course, a Latin term for a mystagogue. Yworth was associated with a number of Quakers and buried in a Quaker cemetery at Woodbridge, Suffolk, Woodbridge, Suffolk, which, as Wallworth observes, suggests that he may have been a Quaker. Works * ''A New Treatise of Artificial Wines, or, A Bacchean Magazine'' (1690) * ''A New Art of Making Wines, Brandy, and Other Spirits, Compliant to the Late Act of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
