ALCHEMY - SALAMANDER - FIRE ELEMENTAL An alchemical process, represented as taking place in four stages in a single glass vessel. The elemental of Fire (the Salamander) is depicted as playing an important role in the process. In the second vessel, it is shown eating flames, in the third, it is luxuriating in the flames, and seems to have been transformed into an ouroboros snake. Hand-coloured engraving from Johann Conrad Barchusen, Elementa Chemiae, 1718.

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