The alchemist, Avicenna (Abu 'Ali Al Hosain ibn Sina), the Master of Alchemy, who was born near Bukhara in 980, an died in 1037. The symbolism of this image is based on the volatization of the fixed, and the fixation of the volatile - one of the processes of alchemy. From Michael Maier, 'Symbola Aureae Mensae', 1617.

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