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Sunlight in alchemy - Adam McLean - 01-18-2023
An illustration from the Arcana divina, MS 88 in the Beinecke Library, Yale, shows the use of sunlight to heat or transform material in alchemical flasks.
RE: Sunlight in alchemy - Adam McLean - 01-20-2023
Here are some drawings of sunlight being used to heat alchemical apparatus.
Yale, Beineke, Mellon MS 136. Johann Arndt (1555-1621) Das zweyte Silentium Dei in Königs Salomonis des Weisen paradiessischen Lustgarten.
1798.
RE: Sunlight in alchemy - Paul Ferguson - 01-20-2023
What's that on the reverse of Sheet 23? Looks like a Masonic pigpen cipher.
https://planetcalc.com/7842/
RE: Sunlight in alchemy - Adam McLean - 01-21-2023
Yes, it appears particularly on that page, but occasionally throughout the rest of the manuscript coding single words and in some cases extended phrases.
RE: Sunlight in alchemy - Adam McLean - 01-21-2023
Later in the manuscript, there appears to be a diagram explaining the code.
RE: Sunlight in alchemy - Paul Ferguson - 01-21-2023
Video about this here:
https://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/a-encrypted-book-from-the-year-1798/