Strange Doings in an Alchemists Flask

Johann Conrad Barchusen was born in Lippe, one of the former states of Germany, in 1666. He studied pharmacy, became a physician, and was appointed 

FIGURE 90. Is that author Johann Conrad Barchusen weighing the midnight oil in his Utrecht laboratory (Pyrosophia, Utrecht, 1698). 

FIGURE 94. Emblems 55, 57, 59, 65, 67, and 75 (left to right in each row starting, from the top) from Johann Conrad Barchusen s Ekmenta Chemiae (Leiden, 1718). 

Ferguson, ]., Bibliotheca Chemica, Vol. 1, Derek Verschoyle, London, 1954, pp. 71—72. 

McLean, The Alchemical Mandala, Phanes Press, Grand Rapids, MI, 1989. 

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