![Renaissance chemical symbols. From Oswald Crolii, Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt, 1609) Page 77 of Basilica Chymica featuring a page on corollarium followed by the chemical names and their corresponding chemical symbols of the metals.](images/crollii1t.jpg)
Renaissance chemical symbols. From Oswald Crolii,
Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt, 1609).
![Renaissance chemical symbols. From Oswald Crolii, Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt, 1609) Page 80 of Basilica Chymica featuring a page of chemical names and their corresponding chemical symbols.](images/crollii2t.jpg)
Renaissance chemical symbols. From Oswald Crolii,
Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt, 1609).
![Alchemy Workshop. Woodcut in Johann Daniel Mylius, Opus medico-chymicum: continens tres tractatus sive basilicas... v. 1, t.p. vignette (Francofurti, 1618-1620). Image A012134 from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). Interior view of an alchemical workshop showing the alchemist and many symbols important to alchemy, such as the rising sun, the moon, a lion and a serpent, a scale, a square, plants, a cross/caduceus, and most importantly, fire.](images/laboratory2t.jpg)
Back cover illustration: Paracelsian-era discussions often took place within a complex framework of symbols such as those shown here. Woodcut in Johann Daniel Mylius,
Opus medico-chymicum ..., Vol. 1 (Francofurti, 1618-1620).
Last Reviewed: July 21, 2011