William Yworth or Yarworth (
Dutch: Willem IJvaert) (died 1715) was an Anglo-Dutch
distiller,
alchemist
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, 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
Latinized form of the
Greek ''kleidophoros'' (κλειδοφόρος), meaning "key bearer," and ''Mystagogus'' is, of course, a Latin term for a
mystagogue
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. Yworth was associated with a number of
Quakers and buried in a Quaker cemetery at
Woodbridge Woodbridge may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Woodbridge, Western Australia formerly called ''West Midland''
*Woodbridge, Tasmania
Canada
*Woodbridge, Ontario
England
*Woodbridge, Suffolk, the location of
** Woodbridge (UK Parliament constituency ...
, 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 Parliament'' (1691)
* ''Chymicus Rationalis'' (1692)
* ''Cerevisiarii Comes'' (1692)
* ''Introitus Apertus ad Artem Distillationis'' (1692)
* ''The Britannian Magazine: or, A new art of making above twenty sorts of English wines...'' (1694/1700)
* ''Mercury′s Caducean Rod'' (1702)
* ''Processus Mysterii Magni'' (1702)
* ''Trifertes Sagani, or Immortal Dissolvent'' (1705)
* ''The Compleat Distiller'' (1705)
References
1715 deaths
17th-century alchemists
18th-century alchemists
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