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Detail of a zodiac diagram enclosing two dragons, a sun and a moon, Add MS 5025, f. 3r
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alchemical treatise, Italy 15th century (Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 28.26)
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The Cosmic Rose, from Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, a book on alchemy, by Heinrich Khunrath, 1595
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The Alchemical Rose - Dat Rosa Mel Apibus- 'The rose gives the bees honey' after engraving by Johann Thedore deBry (d. 1598)
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Athanasius Kircher, Iter extaticum, Wurzburg, 1671
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Liber patris sapientiae, in Theatrum chemicum Britannicum, 1652
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Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, Amsterdam, 1660
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Alchemist in his laboratory 18th century
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Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
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Book of oracles in rhyming couplets, Central Germany, 14th century
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Jehan Thenaud, Introduction à la Cabale, dédiée au roi François Ier (1536). Microcosmic man
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Ripley Scroll Huntington Library, HM 30313
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J. D. Mylius, from Philosophia Reformata (Rosarium philosophorum sive pretiosissimum donum Dei), Frankfurt, ca. 1622
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Duke University engraving Autumn
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1617, Atalanta Fugiens, Emblème II_Michael Maier (1569 - 1622)
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The Providence
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Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
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18_Lion_Illustration number 18- the Lion devours the Sun
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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291, detail of f. 142r. Rabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis. 1425_demonagerie
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Italy as an allegorical woman is torn at by beasts_New York, New York Public Library, Spencer Collection NYPL Spencer 081, f. "v
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Aurora consurgens_
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Collectanea de Lapide Philosophiae, c. 2nd half of the 16th century, Sloane 1171, f. 100v, The British Library
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Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium, c. 1760, Mellon MS 110, Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library_2
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Sloane 1171 ff. 100v-101 Sun and dragon
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Évrart de Conty, Les Échecs amoureux, France 1496-1498 (BnF, Français 143, fol. 112v)
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Detail from the alchemical treatise Splendor Solis, Germany, 1582, Harley MS 3469, f. 18r
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13096301_837247166381348_5481630302996498263_n
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Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825 Vol.30
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the kabbalah, mirror of art and nature, in alchemy
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The Doctor of Fools, Theodor de Bry, 1657. From Jacques Lagniet, Recueil des plus illustres proverbes, divises en trois livres [A Series of Illustrated Proverbs, Divided into Three Books] (Paris, 1657–1663), pl. 15