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Alchemical laboratory

  • 1652 (MDCLII)

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This 17th-century engraving is from Thomas Norton's The Ordinall of Alchimy and was made after a 15th-century illuminated manuscript (now preserved in the British Library). Norton, a practicing alchemist, depicts an early laboratory scene with an enclosed balance.

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Ashmole, Elias. “Alchemical Laboratory.” In Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. London, England: John Grismond, 1652. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/9s161688c.

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