Monday, May 9, 2022

A Gallery of Fantastical Alchemical Drawings


 Alchemy was the science of its day, with lots of overlap with the occult. From Open Culture:

The images are strange, surreal, cryptic, and seem to reference no known reality. They are the inspiration for centuries of occult art and esoteric literature. But each one also had practical intent — to illustrate mysterious, often secretive processes for discovering the foundations of the universe, and profiting from them. If these techniques look nothing like our modern methods for doing the same, that’s for good reason, but it doesn’t mean that alchemy has nothing to do with science. It is, rather, science’s weird distant ancestor (Read more.)

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