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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 Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

Boschius’s Ars Symbolica, Cylinder Mechanisms Featuring

Unius conscia verbi

Aware of the word of one only.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 1, emblem DXXVIII 528.

Uni patet

It’s clear to everyone.

“x – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, XXV 25.

Uni patet verbo

It’s clear to everyone from the word alone.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, DLI 551.

Verbum absconditum

The hidden word.

“Xt.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, XLVII 47.

Tutae custodibus istis

Safe from these guards.

“Xt.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, DXXXI 801.

  • 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 Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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