Figures of the Sun and Earth mb-artistname Samuel Philips Exterior view of nos 134-6

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

Peter Hindley and Bobby McKinlay

Laboratory equipment intended to measure the expansion of fluids when heated

at the top is an interior view of Westminster Hall showing the trial of William Howard

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

Figures of the Sun and Earth mb-artistname Samuel Philips Exterior view of nos 134-6Figures 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,