Alchemical master and disciple
- Part of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- 1652 (MDCLII)
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 the secrecy with which alchemical knowledge was to be treated. The master abjures the student to "Accept the gift of God under a sacred seal," while the student replies "I shall preserve the secrets of holy alchemy in secrecy."
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Ashmole, Elias. “Alchemical Master and Disciple.” In Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. London, England: John Grismond, 1652. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/bn9997519.
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