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Venus riding a scallop shell chariot over the seas accompanied by Neptune, nymphs and cherubs, symbolising the element water. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1695Reference: 23640i- Pictures
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Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above: symbolising the element fire. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1695Reference: 23618i- Pictures
A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 35332i- Pictures
A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 45101i- Pictures
Cybele, accompanied by Bacchus and Ceres, is carried on a chariot drawn by lions, surrounded by ancillary deities and followers; representing the element earth. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1721, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.
Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733.Date: [1721]Reference: 3069786i- Pictures
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Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1695Reference: 23641i- Pictures
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.
Date: 1616Reference: 35413i- Books
Vico's New science : a philosophical commentary / Donald Phillip Verene.
Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937-Date: 2015- Books
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A briefe, excellent, and profitable discourse, of the naturall beginning of all growing and liuing things, heate, generation, effects of the spirits, gouernment, vse and abuse of phisicke, preseruation, &c : no lesse pleasant and acceptable to the students of philosophie and phisicke, then beneficiall and necessarie for all others, desirous either of knowledge, health, youth, and long life : collected and tradused as wel forth of the best olde wryters, as out of the new, and most approued in our daies : in the ende wherof is shewed, the order and composition of a most heauenly water, for the preseruation of mans lyfe / by Iohn Iones phisicion ; herevnto is anexed, a right learned, and profitable work, entituled, Galens booke of elements, by the same author ; in the ende wherof is adioyned two other bookes, containing the nature, propertie and effects of all the bathes in England, aswel the bathes of the citie of Bathes, as the bathes or wells at Buckstone in Darbyshyre, by the same author.
Jones, John, active 1562-1579.Date: 1574- Books
The Oxford handbook of spontaneous thought : mind-wandering, creativity, and dreaming / edited by Kieran C.R. Fox, Kalina Christoff.
Date: [2018]