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The alchemical essence and the chemical element : an episode in the quest of the unchanging / by M.M. Pattison Muir.

M. M. Pattison Muir, Glasgow University Library · 1894 · London, 1894. · 1 picture

An 1894 London scholarly study of alchemy by M. M. Pattison Muir, held by Glasgow University Library, written for readers of the history of chemistry. The one picture is a row of labelled geometric diagrams: slanted line segments marked A through O with dashed vertical guides, plain and technical in style. A designer could take from it a rhythm of evenly spaced diagonal strokes and lettered markers for an abstract or schematic layout.

Alchemy

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