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A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
In the fifth scene down, Apollo, bearing a bow, takes from the man a vessel decorated with a sun-like flower with its petals spread
Laurinda Dixon comments that the couple present throughout the Mutus liber are shown in recollection of Nicolas Flamel and his wife Perrenelle (Nicolas Flamel, His exposition of the hieroglyphical figures (1624), ed. Laurinda Dixon, London 1994, p. xxx)
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