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This is an image that illustrates all phases of the Great Work or Magnum Opus. The crow represents Nigredo, the peacock represents Cauda Pavonis, the pheonix represents Rubedo. The man and woman symbolize duality. The circle at the bottom suggests…

This is an image from an emblem book that depicts a body with feminine and masculine traits. The fire indicates the unfinished process of purification during the Albedo state of the alchemical process.

This is an image that shows the alchemical process of Nigredo. It is part of Mylius's emblem book called Philosophia Reformata. The skeleton, crow, and black sun refer to the ideas of putrefaction and mortification associated with the Nigredo stage…

Anonymous engraving depicting an individual inserted in to a athanor, an alchemical furnace to symbolize the purification process of alchemy.

Early modern world map

A table list of alchemy characters from The Last Will and Testament of Basil Valentine.

A collection of texts that describes various alchemical processes.

A picture book that uses symbols of alchemy and deals with moral topic of good and evil.

The Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom is Khunrath's best-known work on alchemy.