The First Modern Encyclopedia

FIGURE 66. An early-sixteenth-century alchemist from the first modem encyclopedia of any importance (Reisch, Margarita Philosophica, 1503, from The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, a collection in the Othmer Library, CHF). 

FIGURE 67. Woodcut from Bartholomaeus de Glanvilla, Anglicus. De las Propriedades de las Cosas, Toulouse, Henri Mayer, 1494- This is a printed edition of a very famous encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. It depicts a visit hy a physician and a consult with an apothecary. 

FIGURE 69. Woodcut from Hortus Sanitatis, Le Jardin de Sante, Paris, Philippe le Noir, ca 1510.It depicts a doctor in his laboratory. 

Duveen, Bibliotheca Alchemica et Cherrdca, facsimile reprint, HES Publishers, Utrecht, 1986, p. 501. 

Neville, Roy G., The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library The Annotated Catalogue of 

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