Structure engraving

Khunrath s engraving of Christ-Anthropos, the Archetype of the universe (fig. 3), initiated many of the elements later found in Fludd s prolific illustrations of the Macrocosmic Man. These included the use of the male nude, kabbalistic inscriptions, geographical compass-points, the diagrammatic structure of the Macrocosm and the motif of the dove of the Holy Spirit. The apocalyptic context of these images and their role in the Protestant Reformation of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries will be considered in the following chapter. 

This engraving is found in the Hermetic Museum and it shows the Athanor [or Furnace of the Alchemists] and the principal symbolic animals belonging to Hermeticism. This particular Athanor has a somewhat fanciful structure but it does include the main parts the [brick-base] tower surmounted by a dome, the sand bath, and the Philosophical Egg. The serpent enclosed within the Egg represents the Matter of the Stone. 

The intrinsic language of chemistry is formed by the vocabulary of chemical formulae and structural representations connected by the syntax of their interconversions. It describes a tangible reality it is a reification of the word and the text its signs are engraved into matter [1.18,1.19]. 

The multiple origins hypothesis is built upon the marvelous but not miraculous properties of chemistry which are engraved in the structure of atoms. All of the postulates of the Genomic Potential Hypothesis, which stay well within the epistemological framework of a scientific dissertation, provide a legitimate basis for experimental testing. 

The fascination with interweaved structures shown by the Celts was undoubtedly related with beauty and perfection, which has lasted to the present day, spreading and changing. The remarkable sixteenth century designs created by Albrecht Durer and Leonardo da Vinci (Fig. 5) were engraved and printed for subsequent use by painters, goldsmiths, weavers, damaskeeners and needle workers [17]. 

The letter depth measurements were made repeatedly at the same representative location on each letter. Relatively large but consistent standard deviations probably resulted from crystal structure inhomogeniety, variations in letter engraving, etc. Figure 1 illustrates two distinct rates of leaching. The greatest rate occured in... 

Figure 10.5 (a) solution structure of the tailbiter foldamer (10.1) (reproduced by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry) and (b) Lucas Jennis engraving of the wyrm Ouroboros that swallows its own tail, published on an alchemical emblem-book entitled De Lapide Philisophico (1625). 

A typical structure of the sandwich type gas-diffiision separator is shown in Fig 5.1. As its name implies, the membrane which separates the donor and acceptor streams is sandwiched between two half blocks on which are engraved channels that are minor images of each other. An inlet and an outlet port, extending from the channels and furnished with connectors, are provided on each block. The blocks, usually made of... 

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