Images Dated 2nd September 2008

Chrysopoeia Of Cleopatra

Alchemical symbols from the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, an early Greek manuscript, circa 100 AD. On the lower left is an Ouroboros, a serpent eating its own tail, with the Greek inscription En to pan ('All is one'). The word chrysopoeia means literally gold-making, derived from the Greek. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Alchemists Notebook

A page in Latin from An Alchemist's Notebook, showing how to make aurum potabile or drinkable gold, a mythical panacea, circa 1650. The figure of a woman holds up the words de duabus aquis facite unam ('from two liquids, create one'), which are also written in German across her middle. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Historic Pastelaria A Brasileira , Baixa District, Lisbon, Portugal

Historic Pastelaria "A Brasileira", Baixa District, Lisbon, Portugal

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