alchemical illustration the human eye gregor reisch

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Alchemical illustration of the human eye by gregor reisch

Alchemical illustration of the human eye by gregor reisch, according to the medieval conception, the eye consisted of three different forms of condensation of the body fluid: in the center there was the frozen liquid, in front of the aqueous area, behind the crystalline one; the eye had seven coatings, which corresponded to the seven spheres of the planets, the kabbalists associated the eye with the sefiroth, the divine nothing, present in all things