1000CE-1799CE Illustrations Philosophical Mercury (Mercurius) c.1400 copy Hippocrates title page Froben Press 1538 The opening decoration and invocation to Allah from a 16th century manuscript of Avicenna’s Canon The earliest known depiction of a Siberian shaman, produced by the Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, who authored an account of his travels among Samoyedic- and Tungusic-speaking peoples in 1692 Sami Shaman with his drum Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus from Michael Maier’s Symbola aurea mensae – Frankfurt, 1617 Wolf Shaman (Plains North America, 19th Century