Natural magick

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615, Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, engraver, Young, Thomas, active 1658, publisher, Speed, Samuel, -1681, publisher · 1658 · London : Printed for Thomas Young and Samuel Speed and are to be sold at the three pigeons, and at the angel in St. Paul's Church-yard · 7 pictures

The 1658 English translation of Giambattista della Porta's Magia naturalis, printed in London by Thomas Young and Samuel Speed for gentlemen readers curious about experiments, recipes, distillation and conjuring tricks. Small woodcuts show retorts, alembics, furnace trestles and lettered diagrams in coarse parallel hatching, with a rayed human-faced sun; useful for laboratory glassware silhouettes and early scientific diagram conventions.

Science · Industrial arts · Magnetism · Magic tricks · Alchemy

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