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Hic Pater devorat Filium: Anima & Spiriturs è corpore promanant

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Publication:
Francofurti: Hermannum a Sande, 1677 [1678]
Language(s):
Latin
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Alchemy
Symbolism
Genre(s):
Book Illustrations
Abstract:
The king sitting on a throne is about to devour the head of his son as a winged man observes; representation of the coming together of two spirits for creation of the Philosophers' Stone as observed by the supreme spirit of the macrocosm.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Related Title(s):
Is part of: Musaeum hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum..., p. 367.; See related catalog record: 2389044R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut
NLM Unique ID:
101435260 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A012143
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101435260