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Sunlight in alchemy
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01-18-2023, 03:59 PM
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.

   
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01-20-2023, 08:15 PM
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.
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01-20-2023, 09:15 PM (This post was last modified: 01-20-2023, 09:16 PM by Paul Ferguson.)
What's that on the reverse of Sheet 23? Looks like a Masonic pigpen cipher.

https://planetcalc.com/7842/
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01-21-2023, 10:08 AM
Yes, it appears particularly on that page, but occasionally throughout the rest of the manuscript coding single words and in some cases extended phrases.

   
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01-21-2023, 10:10 AM
Later in the manuscript, there appears to be a diagram explaining the code.

   
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01-21-2023, 04:29 PM
Video about this here:

https://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-k...year-1798/
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