Figures of the Sun and Earth mb-artistname Samuel Philips Peter Hindley and Bobby McKinlay

Peter Hindley and Bobby McKinlay

possibly the Ocythoe cranchii [Argonauta hians] described in the same volume of Transactions by William Elford Leach

Interior view of the Thames Tunnel

Exterior view of nos 134-6 Aldersgate Street including the premises of J Smith

Skeleton of Aptornis otidiformis Owen in the Canterbury Museum

Figures of the Sun and Earth mb-artistname Samuel Philips Peter Hindley and Bobby McKinlayFigures of the Sun and Earth linked by 'heavenly' and 'earthly' pyramids of fire. These are inscribed: 'Ignis Palladias' [Pallas fire ] and 'Ignis Vestiae' [Vesta fire] and are ascribed qualities or attributes, for example the latter 'Corporeus et inquinatus semper depuratur et redditur subtilior' [Physical and polluted, always purified and rendered more subtle]. Plate from the chapter 'De Igne', pp. 34 35 in Actorum chymicorum Holmiensium Parasceve,