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Jabir ibn Hayyan, Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae, Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabul smaragdina, Hortulanus. Commentarius in Tabulam Smaragdinam Hermetis Trismegisti, Khalid ibn Yazid al-Umawi, 7th cent. Liber secretorum alchemiae, Polydorus, Chrysogonus, Richardus, Anglicus, d. 1252. Correctorium alchemiae · 1545 · [Bern] : Ioañ. Petreius Nurembergeñ. denuo Bernae excudi faciebat · 20 pictures

A Latin collection of alchemical treatises attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan, with texts by Roger Bacon and the Emerald Tablet commentary of Hortulanus, printed at Bern in 1545 for scholars and practitioners of the art. Woodcuts show furnaces, alembics, crucibles and perforated firing plates in dense parallel hatching, useful as laboratory-apparatus motifs and models for hatched cylindrical shading.

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