Liber Platonis quartorum

More developed accounts of this alchemical Cosmic Body of Anthropos are located in alchemical texts published in the late Renaissance, such as the Liber Platonis quartorum printed in Zetzner s Theatrum chemicum (Strassburg, 1622). (It was known in manuscript prior to this appearance). The text of the Liber Platonis quartorum describes the construction of an alchemical vessel out of a human skull, an image intended perhaps to have only a metaphorical meaning ... 

Liber Platonis Quartomm ] Liber Platonis Quartorum cum Commento Hebubabes Hamed explicatus ab Hestole in Eberbard Zetzner (ed.), Theatrum chemicum (Zetzner, 1622) 5, 101-85. 

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