Directed study

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Some General Alchemical Illustrations




















Engraving of Kepler's Platonic Universe from Mysterium Cosmographicum, Tübingen, 1596.


Woodcut from Simon Vostre, Hore Beate Marie, Paris, 1502.

Woodcut from Nativity Calendar of Leonhard Reymann, 1515

Woodcut of Ezekiel's vision from the Bear Bible, 16th Century.

Engraving from later edition of Flamel in Jean Maugin de Richenbourg, Bibliotheque des philosophes chimiques, Paris, 1741.

The hand of the philosophers from J.J. Hollandus, Chymische Schrifften, Vienna, 1773.

Woodcut from Toeltius Coelum reseratum chymicum... Frankfurt, 1737.

Large engraving of the polarities in the macrocosm and the microcosm, from J.D.
Mylius Opus medico-chymicum.







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