{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0650.htm","path":"aor/dv/0650.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0650.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nTake away that yellow surface which covers oranges and distill them in an alembic, until the distillation may be said to be perfect.\nClose a room tightly and have a brasier of brass or iron with fire in it and sprinkle on it two pints of aqua vitae, a little at a time, so that it may be converted into smoke. Then make some one come in with a light and suddenly you will see the room in a blaze like a flash of lightning, and it will do no harm to any one.","title":"Vol. I: IX. The Practice of Painting: 650.","type":"page"}