Sophie sulfur

During the Renaissance, the classical Greek views of nature were finally challenged by the likes of Paracelsus. " Paracelsus extended an earlier view of matter that held that it was a union between an exalted sulfur of the philosophers ( Sophie Sulfur —characterized often as male) and an exalted mercury of... 

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FIGURE 83. Birth of Athena from the head of her father Zeus (no mother here) and a chemical conjunctio with her brother Apollo (from Michael Maier s Atalanta Fugiens). The conjunctio, or chemical marriage, weds Sol and Luna or Sophie Sulfur and Sophie Mercury (courtesy of The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University). 

In Figure 92, Emblem 15 represents the dissolution of purified gold to form Sophie Sulfur in the alchemical flask. Placing the flask in a furnace (athanor) unites Sophie Sulfur with Sophie Mercury and the homogeneous mixture (Em-... 

FIGURE 56. A depiction of the trki prima (Sophie Mercury, Sulfur, and Salt) from Della Tramutatione Metallica hy Giovanni Battista Nazari (Brescia, 1599). A very similar figure, depicting Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer, appeared in an anti-Mesmer pamphlet published in 1784- ... 

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