The Symbolic Treaty of the Philosophical Stone in 78 Figures

THE SYMBOLIC TREATY OF THE PHILOSOPHAL STONE IN 78 FIGURES

Johann Conrad Barchusen

Sheets extracted from his “Elementa Chimiae quibus subjuncta est confectura lapidis philosophici imaginibus repraesentata”,

Leiden,

1718

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“Between the different metals there exists a sympathy such as that between the magnet and steel, gold and quicksilver, silver and copper; and this sympathy is the rationale of the transmutation of metals. On the other hand, there are also metallic antipathies, such as that of lead to tin, of iron to gold, of lead to mercury—antipathies which have their counterpart in the animal and vegetable worlds.”

John Frederick Helvetius

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