[Alchemical emblem]
- Creator
- Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622
- Cremer, John (14th cent.-)
- Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Form
- engravings (prints)
- Date
- 1618
- Subject
- Laboratories
- Collection
- Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Notes
- Engravings in this edition attributed to Theodor de Bry by Huntington Library
- Alchemy. Emblem appears on the title page of treatise by Cremer (the third of three treatises in this edition). The figure in this image, who has been taken for Aquinas, gestures toward a mountain in which sulfur and mercury combine to form metals, while an alchemist makes similar combinations.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Identifier
- 540.1 M293 L P.183
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