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Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.

An alchemist reading a book; his assistants stirring the crucible on the other side of the room. Engraving by P.F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.

Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle (?) after J. van der Straet.

A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.

A chemist gives a demonstration involving arsenic to an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

An enthroned king, wearing three crowns and with a sword in his mouth, having vanquished a green seven headed hydra; an archangel with a key imprisons Lucifer in chains by a roaring fire; representing the culmination of the alchemical process and the sublimation of base matter. Coloured etching after an etching, ca. 17th century.

Two workers in an alchemist's laboratory, surrounded by chemical receptacles and equipment. Engraving, 1669.

An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.

The public image of chemistry / edited by Joachim Schummer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Brigitte Van Tiggelen.

Nouveau cours de chymie, suivant les principes de Newton et de Sthall [sic] Avec un discours historique sur l'origine et les progrez de la chymie ... / [Jean Baptiste Sénac].

The disappearing spoon : and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements / Sam Kean.

Mediaeval Arabic bookmaking and its relation to early chemistry and pharmacology / Martin Levey.

Affinity, that elusive dream : a genealogy of the chemical revolution / Mi Gyung Kim.

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The public image of chemistry / edited by Joachim Schummer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Brigitte Van Tiggelen.

Nouveau cours de chymie, suivant les principes de Newton et de Sthall [sic] Avec un discours historique sur l'origine et les progrez de la chymie ... / [Jean Baptiste Sénac].

The disappearing spoon : and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements / Sam Kean.

Mediaeval Arabic bookmaking and its relation to early chemistry and pharmacology / Martin Levey.

Affinity, that elusive dream : a genealogy of the chemical revolution / Mi Gyung Kim.