Author: Davidson, Jane P.

Source: Ambix, Volume 34, Number 2, July 1987 , pp. 62-80(19)

Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:

“I am the poison-dripping dragon, who is everywhere and can be cheaply had … my water and fire destroy and put together; from my body you may extract the green lion and the red … From my snout there comes a spreading poison that has brought death to many …By the philosophers I am named Mercurius … I am the old dragon found everywhere on the globe of the earth … I am the carbuncle of the sun, the most noble purified earth through which you may change iron, tin, and lead into gold …”

“The Spirit Mercurius”

Theatrum Chemicum, 1659

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/000269887790987334

Publication date: 1987-07-01

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