This historical illustration,(1512),by surgeon Hieronymus Brunschwig depicts an alchemist's workshop. It is entitled 'Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis.' Potion-making required knowledge of chemistry,instruments,and a wide variety of ingredients and was fundamental to the practice of alchemy. Alchemists concentrated the power of their ingredients by distilling their solutions with complicated apparatus including alembics,retorts,and cauldrons | |
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