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Musaeum hermeticum, reformatum et amplificatum : omnes sopho-spagyricae artis discipulos fidelissimè erudiens, quo pacto summa illa veraque lapidis philosophici medicina, qua res omnes qualemcunque defectum patientes, instaurantur, inveniri & haberi queat : continens tractatus chimicos XXI. praestantissimos ..

Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650 · 1678 · Francofurti : Apud Hermannum à Sande · 67 pictures

A Latin alchemical compendium of twenty-one treatises, published in Frankfurt by Hermann à Sande in 1678 with plates from the Merian workshop, for practitioners and scholars of spagyric art. Copperplate emblems combine planetary and elemental signs, bearded heads, suns, moons and animals inside geometric diagrams, alongside woodcut initials filled with foliate scrollwork and small figures such as Moses with the tablets; useful for occult symbol sets, wheel diagrams and decorated capitals.

Alchemy

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