(19-05-2025, 05:50 AM)BessAgritianin wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is more than obvious an alchemical process.
The scientific crowd often fixates to comparative iconography, desperately matching illustration to medieval scripts, while missing the glaringly obvious.
F85r2 is depicting a process of generation of Luna or Sol within a sealed vessel (mark how the vapours do not exit but reaching a maximum return into the vessel).
Return into the vessel? I don't see a return path.
The double enclosure suggests a bain-marie, with water (blue) protecting against direct fire.
From Hieronymus Brunschwig's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. / You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. an illustration of the "Balneum Marie" setup: