In her new book, The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom, Szulakowska still complains that “recent research into the history of alchemical illustration in the Renaissance period is sparse” (p. principles of iconology and semiotics and offered a study of intellectual history with a methodology that threw light on little-examined visual aspects of speculative alchemy in relation to developments of early modern science, primarily optics and geometry.
The peculiarity of this heavily illustrated book was that its author revisited the. Urszula Szulakowska established herself at the forefront of scholars dealing with early modern esotericism in 2000 when Brill published her monograph, The Alchemy of Light: Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration (Symbola Et Emblemata Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Symbolism 10).
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