> Finally: I'm fascinated by the complex figure right at the end (f89r) - can
> anyone tell me what it is supposed to mean?
> http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/PageLevel/index.cfm?ManID=ljs382&Page=177
As the caption below says, it is "Arbor Philosophiae" and shows various alchemical operations and their order or relationships.
Such diagrams are quite frequent and are probably derived from Lullian art of memory (as many alchemical texts were ascribed to Ramon Lull) and from other philosophical/logical constructions of this type, common in medieval scholasticism.
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