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LabyrinthDesigners & the Art of Fire

Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

Boschius’s Ars Symbolica, Anvils and Hammers

Se non arde non si piega

If it doesn’t burn it doesn’t bend.

“X” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 1, emblem CII 102.

Sotto il ferro ma senza piaghe

Under the iron but without wounds.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, DCLVI 656.

Battuto più tanto più dura

The more it is beaten the harder it is.

“X” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 3, emblem CCCXVIII 318.

Tundor non frangor

I am beaten but I do not break.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, DCCCXXXVII 837.

Ferendo non feriendo

Carrying without hurting.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, CDXXXIII 433.

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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