The Popular Science Review, 1862, Vol. 1: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from The Popular Science Review, 1862, Vol. 1: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects

We have his picture before ns - the Old alchemist! There he sits in his vaulted chamber, upon his'carved, high-backed arm-chair. His head, of Which little else is visible than his long flowing hair and heard, leans upon his lefl: hand, whilst With the right he turns over the pages of some mouldering volume in search of the hidden treasure. Around him may be seen the emblems of his craft. In one corner is a small furnace, fitted With a primitive pair of bellows, on which stands nu iron still. Mortars, pestlea, crucibles, air-pumps, weights and scales, flasks, funnels, pincers, jars, and vessels of every kind he scattered about in confusion. Onaboard or rude tableau rmmded by these appliances, site Mr great black cat, and, suspended over the head of the hoary philosopher, the stuffed owl with outspread wings sways gently to and fro.

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