Magic Transistor

Adriaen van Ostade, An Alchemist (Oil on canvas), 1661.

Egbert van Heemskerk I, An Alchemist in His Study (oil on canvas), 17th century, n.d.

Antonio Neri, Il tesoro del mondo, c. 1599.

Johann Jakob Haid, c.1770.

Vlaming David Teniers de Jonge, Der Chemiker (1610-1690).

David Teniers the Younger, Interior of an Alchemist's Laboratory (oil on canvas), ca. 1670.

François Marius Granet, The Alchemist (Oil on canvas); 19th century.

Ouroboros (Tail-swallowing serpent symbolizing all time and eternity), c. 1760.

Médecin guérissant phantasie van Matthias Greuter (1564-1638) en op het Flugblatt von Dr. Wurmbrandt (gereproduceerd in Das Deutsche Illustrierte Flugblatt door H. Wäscher uit 1955).

Hoewel Teniers, The Laboratory of Thomas Major (1714-1799).

Franse graveur Noël le Mire (1724-1801).

Jacques Nicholas Tardieu (1716-1791), Le Docteur Alchimiste (Engravings), Nd.

Érik Desmazières, Wunderkammer, 1948.

Basilius Valentinus. Of The Spirit of Mercury. 1400s.

‘Wherefore I now say, that all visible, tangible things are made of the Spirit of Mercury, which excels all earthly things of the whole world, all things being made out of it, having their Off-spring only from it; for all is found therein which can perform all whatsoever the Artist desires to find; It is the beginning to operate Metals, when it is become a spiritual Essence, which is meer Air flying to and fro without wings; it is a moving wind, which after it is expelled its dwelling by Vulcan, it is driven into its Chaos, where it again enters, and resolves itself into the Elements, where it is elevated and attracted by the Sydereal Stars after a Magnetical manner unto themselves, out of love, whence he proceeded before, and was operated because it affects its like again, and attracts it to it.'

Ferrante Imperato, Dell'Historia Naturale, Naples, 1599.

Theophilus Schweighardt, Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum, 1618.