Historical Alchemical Illustrations

Antique illustrations of alchemical laboratories and instruments from the 16th to 18th centuries, depicting early scientific practices.

Equine anatomical Illustration from 'Anatomia del cavallo, infermità, et suoi rimedii'. Anatomy of a horse); (1618). by Carlo Ruini, (1530-1598)
Equine anatomical Illustration from 'Anatomia del cavallo, infermità, et suoi rimedii'. Anatomy of a horse); (1618). by Carlo Ruini, (1530-1598)
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Woman with a book at a human skeleton, a head and a bone; Title page for: J. Munnicks, De Re Anatomica Liber, 1697.A Woman Has a Book on Shot with Anatomical Images. Next to Her on the table is an opened Human Head and a Bone. Behind HE A BOOKCASE AND A HUMAN SKELETON.
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Print at the top right labeled: fol: 148.
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Astronomica Institutio, Frontispiece. Luyts, Jan, 1655-1721. Frontispieces. 1692. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Astronomy, Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543, Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642, Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Astronomical instruments, Ptolemy, 2nd cent., Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687
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Descartes' idea of vision, showing passage of nervous impulse from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes' 'Opera Philosophica', 1692 (Tractatus de homine). Woodcut
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Folio f 17v. Codex Madrid I (Ms. 8937) "Treaty of statics and mechanics", 192 folios with 384 pages. Internal format: 215 x 145 mm. APPLIED MECHANICS (COMPONENTS). APPLIED MECHANICS (MACHINES AND WITS). PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS, CINEMATICS, DYNAMICS. Museum: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA, MADRID. Author: LEONARDO DA VINCI.
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Woodcut engraving depicting the Chinese Comet of 1092. Dated 17th century
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The outside and inside of the first pyramid
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Anatomical illustration of the heart, by Vesalius.
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The anatomist Felix Platter, seated at a table covered with surgical instruments in a room with two other men, below which are the figures of Hippocrates and Galen. Engraving, 1656.
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Processing of mercury. Etching.
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Woodcut engraving depicting the seventh key of Basil Valentine showing the Hermetic Vase (in the shape of a round-bottomed flask) enclosing a chaos which is resolved by sublimation (represented by Libra).
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Johannes Scultetus, Armamentarium chirurgicum
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A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating the liver). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
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Astronomy: five astronomers, forming the allegorical titlepage to N. Mulerius,Tabulae frisicae lunae-solares quadruplices. Engraving, 1611.
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Depiction of a comet seen from Nuremberg, Germany, every night from 14 to 24 December 1664. Date: December 1664
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Prophecy figure X from Prognosticatio Eximii Doctoris Paracelsi, 1536. Artist: Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Paracelsus
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Research into the water level at the Nile meter in Cairo, Jan Luyken, 1689 print Print at the top right marked: I. Partie p. 500. print maker: Amsterdampublisher: Paris paper etching river. measuring-instruments Cairo
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Medieval astronomer with an armillary sphere. Woodcut, 1493.
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Date: 1681
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Futuristic crab hunting, with children on the seabed wearing diving helmets. Date: 1899
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Two Diagrams Showing the Orbits of the Sun and the Moon. Unknown
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'Distillation furnace with multiple alembics and vessels to collect the distillate. Woodcut from ''De la pirotechnia'', Bologna, 1678. First published 1540.'
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Distillation, 1500. Artist: Unknown
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Sea Urchin, Jacques de Gheyn (II), c. 1575 - c. 1625 drawing Sea Eeghel paper. ink pen echinoderms: sea-urchin
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Mount Hekla, in SW Iceland, where eruptions are known since the 12th century, and two other volcanoes of the region. Date: 1555
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Engraving depicting Otto von Guericke's thermoscope - an alcohol thermometer. Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) a German scientist, inventor, and politician. Dated 17th century
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Playing putti with attributes of the arts and science, Jacob Folkema, 1737 print Play puti with attributes of the arts and science. Central to the foreground, two putti are studying a book with mathematical models next to an Arillarium and Measuring instruments. The show is caught in a graceful list, left and right flanked by Hermen. paper etching cupids together with attributes of the arts, sciences, etc.
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Robert Hooke (1635 1703) English scientist. Title page of a 1745 edition of his work Micrographia, detailing his observations through various lenses. Published in September 1665, the first major publication of the Royal Society. Micrographia also describes distant planetary bodies, wave theory of light and the organic origin of fossils.
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'Distillation: alembics in water baths on furnaces, feed distillate into receivers. Woodcut from ''De la pirotechnia'', Bologna, 1678. First published 1540.'
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Sea monster caught between Scheveningen and Katwijk, 1661; A wonderlyck sea monster in Sien. A wonderful sea monster (squid) caught by fishermen in the North Sea between Scheveningen and Katwijk, November 12, 1661. The body of the animal is balm-calibrated by Professor Johannes van Horne in Leiden. The plate and a text sheet piped together on a sheet of paper.
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Page 1, Micrographia, Robert Hooke, 1665.
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Title page of 'Experimenta Nova, ut vocant, Magdeburgica, de vacuo Spatio', (Amsterdam, 1672). ('New Magdeburgian Experiments, as they are called, relating to a Vacuum') in which Otto von Guericke (1606-1686), German inventor, engineer and physicist, published details of his invention of the air pump, 1650, and his experiments on the power of a vacuum. Engraving.
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Illustration from the Japanese & Chinese edition (1716 ) of 'Shi si jing fa hui', (Routes of the Fourteen Meridians and their Functions) by Hua Shou a Chinese physician of the mid-14th century. 'Routes of the Fourteen Meridians and their Functions,' became a classic text used in the practice of acupuncture.
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DIDEROT, DENIS ESCRITOR FRANCES. 1713-1784 PORTADA DE " ENCYCLOPEDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DES SCIENCIES" EDICION 1751. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. MADRID.
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Roman military musical instrument. The Cornu. Engraving. 19th century. Color.
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Invention of a device to pour water, miniature from the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Al-Jazari, 1203, Turkey.
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Third Tome of Natural Treasures. 1758. Madrid, Museum of Natural Sciences. Author: SEBA ALBERTO. Location: MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, MADRID, SPAIN.
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Chinese woodcut: Medical instrument -- cupping vessel
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Title page of The Sceptical Chymist, 1680. Robert Boyle's book that presented his hypothesis that matter consisted of atoms and clusters of atoms in motion and that every phenomenon was the result of collisions of particles in motion.
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Pythagoras .
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pls vii "Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery", 1820
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Illustration from 'Tabulae anatomicae'. (Rome: 1783) by Bartolomeo Eustachi (1500 or 1514 ñ 27 August 1574), (Eustachius), one of the founders of the science of human anatomy.