Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 400
miliar to usthrough mediaeval and modern iconography are of com-paratively little importance as illustrating the social orspiritual conditions out of which they grew, and of whichthey became emblems. They long ago ceased to be de-scriptive, and in the rude periods or places a very few^ Popes Homer,… … Fig. 26.—Swan-Dragon (French). As to external form, the various shapes of the more primi-tive dragons have been largely determined by the mythologiccurrents amid which they have fallen, though their originalbasis in nature may gene-rally be traced. I n the farNorth, where the legendsof…
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![An illustration from R. Abrahami Eleazaris Uraltes chymisches Werk, welches ehedessen von dem Autore Theils in lateinischer und arabischer, Theils auch in chaldäischer und syrischer Sprache geschrieben, nachmahls von einem Anonymo in unsere deutsche Muttersprache übersetzet. Nun aber nebst zugehörigen Kupfern, Figuren ... ingleichen einigen philosophischen Regeln von dem Steine der Weisen zu Nutz und Gebrauch aller Liebhaber der edlen Hermetischen Philosophie, in II. Theilen zum öffentlichen Druck befördert worden durch Iulium Gervasium Schwartzburgicum, P. M. & I. P. E / [Abraham Eleazar]. (1760)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/wellcome-wellcome_b30544506-313-1.webp)