Atalanta Fugiens

Author : Michael Maiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781071854
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atalanta Fugiens written by Michael Maiers and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest alchemical emblem books and unique in its own right. Michael Maier's work is richly illustrated with original prints by M. Merian; each of the 50 emblems presented consists of a motto, print, epigram, and a three-part musical setting of the epigram, followed by an exposition of its meaning.

Author : H. M. E. de Jong
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays
ISBN 13 : 9780877289487
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens written by H. M. E. de Jong and published by Nicolas-Hays. This book was released on 1969 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This facsimile edition attempts to prove that science & theology are two aspects of one divine truth.

Author : Palatino Press
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781507855546
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atalanta Fugiens written by Palatino Press and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete alchemy manuscript in 96 full-page color plates Atalanta Fugiens (lit. Atalanta in flight) is a compendium of illustrated alchemical literature by Michael Maier (1568-1622) a German physician, alchemist, writer, and composer. It was first published in Latin in Oppenheim in 1617. The theme of the work is the Greek myth of Atalanta, a virgin huntress who agreed to marry only if her suitors could outrun her. It consists of 50 illustrations, each of which is accompanied by an epigram on the myth, a discourse and a musical fugue. The origins of the present French translation of the manuscript - which does not include the fugues - are unknown. It is presently held by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13 : 9781716891540
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atalanta Unveiled written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500279816
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Game written by Stanislas Klossowski de Rola and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy and the quest for the Philosopher's Stone have been a strand in the development of European culture from antiquity onwards. With the spread of printing, the whole fantastic iconography flowered as never before. This fascinating book presents a selection of the finest alchemical engravings, brought together for the first time, and describes their origins and meanings. 533 illustrations.

Author : Dr. Stephen Skinner
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786782596
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Splendor Solis written by Dr. Stephen Skinner and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only high-quality yet affordable edition available of the classic alchemical manuscript Splendor Solis, described as "the most magnificent treatise on alchemy ever made". Includes up-to-date commentary from experts in the field and a modern translation of the 16th-century text. A magnificent edition of the Splendor Solis for all those interested in alchemy, magic and mysterious manuscripts. Popularly attributed to the legendary figure Salomon Trismosin, the Splendor Solis ('Splendour of the Sun') is the most beautiful alchemical manuscript ever made, with 22 fabulous illustrations rich in allegorical and mystical symbolism. The paintings are given a fitting showcase in this new Watkins edition, which accompanies them with Joscelyn Godwin's excellent contemporary translation of the original 16th-century German text, as well as interpretation from alchemical experts Stephen Skinner and Georgiana Hedesan, and from Rafal T. Prinke, an authority in central and Eastern European esoteric manuscripts. Stephen Skinner explains the symbolism of both the text and the illustrations, suggesting that together they describe the physical process of the alchemical transmutation of base metal into gold. Rafal T. Prinke explains the theories about the authorship of both text and illustrations, discussing Splendor Solis as the turning point in alchemical iconography passing from the medieval tradition to that of the Baroque and the reasons for the misattribution of Splendor Solis to Poysel and Trismosin. Georgiana Hedesan looks at the legendary figure of Salomon Trismosin and his creation by followers of Theophrastus Paracelsus as part of an attempt to integrate their master in a lineage of ancient alchemical philosophers. The images are taken from the British Library manuscript Harley 3469, the finest example of the Splendor Solis to survive.

Author : Andrea Alciati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emblemata written by Andrea Alciati and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognition of the great importance in Renaissance culture of the versatile and complex form of the emblem is increasingly widespread. This series aims to satisfy the needs of those who require access to texts in an edition as close to the original as possible.

Author : Alisha Rankin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226744858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poison Trials written by Alisha Rankin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells their little-known story. At a time when poison was widely feared, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new drugs. As doctors created, performed, and evaluated poison trials, they devoted careful attention to method, wrote detailed experimental reports, and engaged with the problem of using human subjects for fatal tests. In reconstructing this history, Rankin reveals how the antidote trials generated extensive engagement with “experimental thinking” long before the great experimental boom of the seventeenth century and investigates how competition with lower-class healers spurred on this trend. The Poison Trials sheds welcome and timely light on the intertwined nature of medical innovations, professional rivalries, and political power.

Author : Urszula Szulakowska
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004116900
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemy of Light written by Urszula Szulakowska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-examination of alchemical engravings of the late Renaissance uses an innovative semiotic method in analysing their geometrical and optical rhetorical devices. The images are contextualised within contemporary metaphysics, specifically, the discourse of light, and in Protestant reformism.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484663
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Ciconia to Sweelinck written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: