Ars et theoria transmutationis metallicæ cum Voarchadúmia, proportionibus, numeris, & iconibus rei accommodis illustrata. Joanne Augustino Pantheo Veneto authore.
Ars et theoria transmutationis metallicae is a 1550 alchemical treatise by Joannes Antonius Pantheus of Venice, printed in Venice by Vivantius Gautherotius for scholars of alchemy and transmutation. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts: decorative initial letters with interlaced foliage, dense printed text blocks, and two plates of laboratory apparatus drawn in careful perspective, useful to a designer looking for ornamental capitals, strapwork borders, and mechanical drawing of early workshops.
