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 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
All illustrations are taken from Gareth Roberts, The Mirror of Alchemy 
(=MA), unless otherwise indicated. 
 
Title Page: Roger Bacon. ?Bring the elements into balance and you will 
have it (i.e. the Philosophers? Stone)?. Michael Maier, Symbola aurea mensae 
(Frankfurt, 1617), MA 33. 
 
Foreword: A male and female alchemist enjoin silence at the end of the 
(almost wordless) book, the Mutus liber (1702), MA 64. 
 
Chapter One: Title page of Andreas Libavius, Alchymia (Frankfurt, 1606), 
MA 31. 
 
Chapter Two: The catena aurea (golden chain) of the elements, showing the 
links between them, MA 49. 
 
Chapter Three: The riddle of Oedipus. Michael Maier, Atalanta fugens 
(Oppenheim, 1617), MA 72. 
 
Chapter Four: The elements as four women, standing on globes engraved 
with the elements? common alchemical symbols. They are arranged from left 
to right in order of ascending subtlety: earth, water, air and fire. Herbrandt 
Jamsthler, Viatorium spagyricum (Frankfurt, 1625), MA 47. 
 
Chapter Five:  God supervises his creation and Satan falls from heaven. A 
drawing in a miscellaneous collection of alchemical works. MA 14. 
 
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 Chapter Six: Jonson?s impresa, the broken compass, from Giles Corrozet, 
Hecatongraphie, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1543), in David Riggs, Ben Jonson, 206. 
 
Chapter Seven: The middle of the alchemical work: Conjunction. Steffan 
Michelspacher, Cabala: Spiegel der Kuntz und Natur in Alchymia (Augsburg, 
1616), MA 64. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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